Expository Discourses On The First Epistle Of The Apostle Peter Volume Iii

John Brown's Expository Discourses on the First Epistle of the Apostle Peter provides a detailed analysis of Peter's first epistle through a series of lectures and sermons. Brown's commentary is both accessible and comprehensive, providing a valuable resource for scholars and laypeople alike. The author's rigorous scholarship and engaging style make this book an essential read for anyone interested in biblical studies. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

A masterful exposition of the First Epistle of Peter, this work by John Brown is a valuable resource for preachers, theologians, and students of Scripture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ... taste that the Lord was gracious, was mercy indeed, mercy which should have a constraining power to make them most dutiful subjects of their gracious Lord. ii. the manner in which christians obtain their peculiar privileges; by faith of the truth, and reliance on the saviour. Let us now turn our attention, for a little, to the view the text gives us of the manner in which those miserable beings became possessed of their peculiar privileges, to the immediate cause of so favourable a change in their state and circumstances. It was by u coming to Christ as a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious;" it was by " believing on Him," as "the chief corner-stone, elect, precious, which God had laid in Sion." To believe on Christ as the chief corner-stone, and to come to him as the living stone, have generally been understood as synonymous expressions, and both have been viewed as significant of that faith which, by the constitution of the new covenant, is necessarily connected with the enjoyment of the blessings of the Christian salvation; and the passage, "He that cometh to me shall never hunger, he that believeth on me shall never thirst,"1 has often been quoted as clearly proving this. I apprehend that that passage merely proves, that "he that cometh to Christ," and "he that believeth on him," are two descriptions of the same person, not that they are expressions entirely synonymous in meaning. The following passage seems, indeed