Footnotes

1. 2 Peter 1:1 A salutation wherein he giveth them to understand that he dealeth with them as Christ’s ambassador, and otherwise agreeth with them in one selfsame faith which is grounded upon the righteousness of Jesus Christ our God and Savior.
2. 2 Peter 1:1 In that God standing to his promises, showed himself faithful, and therefore just unto us.
3. 2 Peter 1:2 Faith is the acknowledging of God and Christ, from whence all our blessedness issueth and showed.
4. 2 Peter 1:3 Christ setteth forth himself to us plainly in the Gospel, and that by his only power, and giveth us all things which are requisite both to eternal life, wherein he hath appointed to glorify us, and also to godliness, in that he doth furnish us with true virtue.
5. 2 Peter 1:3 He speaketh of Christ, whom he maketh God, and the only Savior.
6. 2 Peter 1:3 Unto salvation.
7. 2 Peter 1:3 This is the sum of true Religion, to be led by Christ to the Father, as it were by the hand.
8. 2 Peter 1:4 An explication of the former sentence, declaring the causes of so great benefits, to wit, God and his free promise, from whence all these benefits proceed, I say, these most excellent benefits, whereby we are delivered from the corruption of the world, (that is, from the wicked lusts which we carry about us) and are made, after a sort, like unto God himself.
9. 2 Peter 1:4 By the divine nature, he meaneth not the substance of the Godhead, but the partaking of these qualities whereby the image of God is restored in us.
10. 2 Peter 1:4 In men.
11. 2 Peter 1:4 For lust is the fear of corruption, and hath his fear even in our very bowels and inmost parts.
12. 2 Peter 1:5 Having laid the foundation (that is, having declared the causes of our salvation and especially of our sanctification) now he beginneth to exhort us to give our minds wholly to the true use of this grace. And he beginneth with faith without which nothing can please God, and he warneth us to have it full fraught with virtue (that is to say) with good and godly manners, being joined with the knowledge of God’s will, without which there is neither faith neither any true virtue.
13. 2 Peter 1:5 Supply also, and support or aid.
14. 2 Peter 1:6 He reckoneth up certain and other principal virtues, whereof some pertain to the first Table of the Law, others to the last.
15. 2 Peter 1:8 As those fruits do spring from the true knowledge of Christ, so in like sort the knowledge itself is fostered, and groweth by bringing forth such fruits, insomuch that he that is unfruitful did either never know the true light, or hath forgotten the gift of sanctification which he hath received.
16. 2 Peter 1:9 He that hath not an effectual knowledge of God in him, is blind as touching the kingdom of God, for he cannot see things that are afar off, that is to say, heavenly things.
17. 2 Peter 1:10 The conclusion: Therefore seeing our calling and election is approved by those fruits, and is confirmed in us, and moreover seeing this is the only way to the everlasting kingdom of Christ, it remaineth that we cast our minds wholly that way.
18. 2 Peter 1:12 An amplifying of the conclusion joined with a modest excuse, wherein he declareth his love towards them, and foretelleth them of his death, which is at hand.
19. 2 Peter 1:13 In this body.
20. 2 Peter 1:16 Another amplification taken both of the great certainty and also excellency of this doctrine, as whereof our Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God is author, whose glory the Apostle himself both saw and heard.
21. 2 Peter 1:19 The truth of the Gospel is hereby also manifest, in that it agreeth wholly with the foretellings of the Prophets.
22. 2 Peter 1:19 The doctrine of the Apostles doth not shut out the doctrine of the Prophets, for they confirm each other by each other’s testimonies, but the Prophets were as candles which gave light unto the blind, until the brightness of the Gospel began to shine.
23. 2 Peter 1:19 A more full and open knowledge than was under the shadows of the Law.
24. 2 Peter 1:19 That clearer doctrine of the Gospel.
25. 2 Peter 1:20 The Prophets are to be read, but so that we ask of God the gift of interpretation: for he that is the author of the writings of the Prophets, is also the interpreter of them.
26. 2 Peter 1:20 He joineth the Scripture and prophecy together to distinguish true prophecies from false.
27. 2 Peter 1:20 For all interpretation cometh from God.
28. 2 Peter 1:21 The godly interpreters and messengers.
29. 2 Peter 1:21 Inspired of God: and these their motions were in very good order, and not such as were the motions of the profane soothsayers, and foretellers of things to come.