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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.
30. 2 Peter 2:1 As in times past there were two kinds of Prophets, the one true, the other false, so Peter fortelleth them that there shall be some true and some false teachers in the Church, insomuch that Christ himself shall be denied by some, who notwithstanding shall call him redeemer.
31. 2 Peter 2:1 Under the Law, while the state and policy of the Jews was yet standing.
32. 2 Peter 2:2 There shall not only be heresies, but also many followers of them.
33. 2 Peter 2:3 Covetousness for the most part is a companion of heresy, and maketh merchandise even of souls.
34. 2 Peter 2:3 They will abuse you, and sell you as they sell cattle in a Fair.
35. 2 Peter 2:3 A comfort for the godly: God who cast the Angels that fell away from him headlong into the darkness of hell, at length to be judged, and who destroyed the old world with the flood, and preserved Noah the eight person, and who burned Sodom, and saved Lot, will deliver his elect from these errors, and will utterly destroy those unrighteous.
36. 2 Peter 2:4 So the Greeks called the deep dungeon under the earth, which should be appointed to torment the souls of the wicked in.
37. 2 Peter 2:4 Bound them with darkness as it were with chains: and by darkness, he meaneth that most miserable state of life, that is full of horror.
38. 2 Peter 2:5 Which was before the Flood: not that God made a new world, but because the world seemed new.
39. 2 Peter 2:5 For he ceased not for the space of an hundred and twenty years to warn the wicked both by word and deed, what wrath of God hanged over their heads.
40. 2 Peter 2:8 Which way soever he looked and turned his ears.
41. 2 Peter 2:8 He had a troubled soul, and being vehemently grieved, lived a painful life.
42. 2 Peter 2:9 Hath been long practiced in saving and delivering the righteous.
43. 2 Peter 2:10 He goeth to another sort of corrupt men, which notwithstanding are within the bosom of the Church, which are wickedly given, and do seditiously speak evil of the authority of Magistrates, (which the Angels themselves that minister before God, do not dispraise) A true and lively description of the Romish Clergy (as they call it.)
44. 2 Peter 2:10 Princes and great men, be they never so high in authority.
45. 2 Peter 2:12 A lively painting out of the same persons, wherein they are compared to beasts, which are made to snare themselves to destruction, while they give themselves to fill their bellies: For there is no greater ignorance than is in these men, although they most impudently find fault with those things which they know not: and it shall come to pass that they shall destroy themselves as beasts, with those pleasures wherewith they are delighted, and dishonor and defile the company of the godly.
46. 2 Peter 2:12 Made to this end, to be a prey to others: so do these men willingly cast themselves into Satan’s snares.
47. 2 Peter 2:12 Their own wicked manners shall bring them to destruction.
48. 2 Peter 2:13 Or, little rocks.
49. 2 Peter 2:13 When as by being amongst the Christians in the holy banquets which the Church keepeth, they would seem by that means to be true members of the Church, yet they are indeed but blots on the Church.
50. 2 Peter 2:14 He condemneth those men, as showing even in their behavior and countenance an inmeasurable lust, as making merchandise of the souls of light persons, as men exercised in all the crafts of covetousness, to be short, as men that sell themselves for money to curse the Sons of God after Balaam’s example, whom the dumb beast reproved.
51. 2 Peter 2:17 Another note whereby they may be well known what manner of men they are, because they have inwardly nothing but either utterly vain or very hurtful, although they make a show of some great goodness: but they shall not escape unpunished for it, because under pretence of false liberty, they draw men into most miserable slavery of sin.
52. 2 Peter 2:17 Which boast of knowledge, and have nothing in them.
53. 2 Peter 2:17 Most gross darkness.
54. 2 Peter 2:18 They deceive men with vain and swelling words.
55. 2 Peter 2:18 They take them as fishes are taken with the hook.
56. 2 Peter 2:18 Unfeignedly and indeed clean departed from Idolatry.
57. 2 Peter 2:20 It were better never to have known the way of righteousness, than to turn back from it to the old filthiness: and men that do so are compared to dogs and swine.
58. 2 Peter 3:1 The remedy against those wicked enemies both of true doctrine and holiness, is to be sought for by the continual meditation of the writings of the Prophets and Apostles.
59. 2 Peter 3:3 He voucheth the second coming of Christ against the Epicureans by name.
60. 2 Peter 3:3 Monstrous men, who will seem wise by their contempt of God, and wicked boldness.
61. 2 Peter 3:4 The reason which these mockers pretend because the course of nature is all one as it was from the beginning: therefore the world is from everlasting, and shall be forever.
62. 2 Peter 3:5 He setteth against them the creation of heaven and earth by the word of God, which these men are willingly ignorant of.
63. 2 Peter 3:5 Which appeared when the waters were gathered together into one place.
64. 2 Peter 3:6 Secondly, he setteth against them the universal flood which was the destruction, as it were of the whole world.
65. 2 Peter 3:6 For the waters returning into their former place this world, that is to say, this beauty of the earth which we see, and all living creatures which live upon the earth perished.
66. 2 Peter 3:7 Thirdly, he pronounceth that it shall not be harder for God to burn heaven and earth with fire in that day which is appointed for the destruction of the wicked, (which thing he will also do) than it was for him in times past to make them with his only word and afterward to overwhelm them with water.
67. 2 Peter 3:8 The taking away of an objection: in that he seemeth to defer this judgment a long season, in respect of us it is true, but not before God with whom there is no time either long or short.
68. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord will surely come, because he hath promised: and that neither sooner nor later than he hath promised.
69. 2 Peter 3:9 A reason why the latter day cometh not out of hand, because God doth patiently wait till the elect are brought to repentance, that none of them may perish.
70. 2 Peter 3:10 A very short description of the least distinction of the world, but in such sort as nothing could be spoken more gravely.
71. 2 Peter 3:10 With the violence as it were of a hissing storm.
72. 2 Peter 3:11 An exhortation to purity of life, setting before us that horrible judgment of God both to bridle our wantonness, and also to comfort us, so that we be found watching and ready to meet him at his coming.
73. 2 Peter 3:12 He requireth patience of us, yet such patience as is not slothful.
74. 2 Peter 3:13 In which heavens.
75. 2 Peter 3:14 That you may try to your profit, how gentle and peaceable he is.
76. 2 Peter 3:15 Paul’s Epistles are allowed by the express testimony of Peter.
77. 2 Peter 3:16 There be certain of these things obscure and dark, whereof the unlearned take occasion to overthrow some men that stand not fast, wrestling the testimonies of the Scripture to their own destruction. But this is the remedy against such deceit, to labor that we may daily more and more grow up and increase in the knowledge of Christ.
78. 2 Peter 3:16 That is to say, among the which things: for he disputeth not here whether Paul’s Epistles be plain or dark, but saith, that amongst those things which Paul hath written of his Epistles, and Peter himself in these two of his own, there are some things which cannot be easily understood, and therefore are of some drawn to their own destruction: and this he saith to make us more attentive and diligent, and not remove us from the reading of holy things, for to what end should they have written vain speculations?