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on the Whole Bible</h1>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+3>First Peter</FONT>
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<BR>Completed by Z<FONT SIZE=-1>ECH.</FONT> M<FONT SIZE=-1>ERRILL</FONT>.</P>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC60001.HTM">Chapter 1</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC60002.HTM">Chapter 2</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC60003.HTM">Chapter 3</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC60004.HTM">Chapter 4</A>
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<LI><A HREF="MHC60005.HTM">Chapter 5</A>
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<P><B>AN</B></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+2>EXPOSITION,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+1>W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E R V A T I O N S,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=-1>OF THE FIRST EPISTLE GENERAL OF</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+3><B>P E T E R.</B></FONT>
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T<FONT SIZE=-1>WO</FONT>
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epistles we have enrolled in the sacred canon of the scripture written
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by Peter, who was a most eminent apostle of Jesus Christ, and whose
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character shines brightly as it is described in the four Gospels and in
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the Acts of the Apostles, but, as it is painted by the papists and
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legendary writers, it represents a person of extravagant pride and
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ambition. It is certain from scripture that Simon Peter was one of the
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first of those whom our Lord called to be his disciples and followers,
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that he was a person of excellent endowments, both natural and
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gracious, of great parts and ready elocution, quick to apprehend and
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bold to execute whatever he knew to be his duty. When our Saviour
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called his apostles, and gave them their commission, he nominated him
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first in the list; and by his behaviour towards him he seems to have
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distinguished him as a special favourite among the twelve. Many
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instances of our Lord's affection to him, both during his life and
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after his resurrection, are upon record. But there are many things
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confidently affirmed of this holy man that are directly false: as, That
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he had a primacy and superior power over the rest of the apostles--that
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he was more than their equal--that he was their prince, monarch, and
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sovereign--and that he exercised a jurisdiction over the whole college
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of the apostles: moreover, That he as the sole and universal pastor
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over all the Christian world, the only vicar of Christ upon earth--that
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he was for above twenty years bishop of Rome--that the popes of Rome
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succeed to St. Peter, and derive from him a universal supremacy and
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jurisdiction over all churches and Christians upon earth--and that all
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this was by our Lord's ordering and appointment; whereas Christ never
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gave him any pre-eminence of this kind, but positively forbade it, and
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gave precepts to the contrary. The other apostles never consented to
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any such claim. Paul declares himself <I>not a whit behind the very
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chief apostles,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=2Co+11:5,12:11">2 Cor. xi. 5 and xii. 11</A>.
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Here is no exception of Peter's superior dignity, whom Paul took the
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freedom to blame, and <I>withstood him to the face,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ga+2:11">Gal. ii. 11</A>.
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And Peter himself never assumed any thing like it, but modestly styles
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himself an <I>apostle of Jesus Christ;</I> and, when he writes to the
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presbyters of the church, he humbly places himself in the same rank
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with them: <I>The elders who are among you I exhort, who am also an
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elder,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=1Pe+5:1"><I>ch.</I> v. 1</A>.
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See Dr. Barrow on the pope's supremacy.</P>
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The design of this first epistle is,
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I. To explain more fully the doctrines of Christianity to these
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newly-converted Jews.
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II. To direct and persuade them to a holy conversation, in the faithful
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discharge of all personal and relative duties, whereby they would
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secure their own peace and effectually confute the slanders and
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reproaches of their enemies.
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III. To prepare them for sufferings. This seems to be his principal
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intention; for he has something to this purport in every chapter, and
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does, by a great variety of arguments, encourage them to patience and
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perseverance in the faith, lest the persecutions and sad calamities
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that were coming upon them should prevail with them to apostatize from
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Christ and the gospel. It is remarkable that you find not so much as
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one word savouring of the spirit and pride of a pope in either of these
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epistles.</P>
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