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