,this e,book was produced by ,david ,widger from etext #aeha prepared by ,dennis ,mc,carthy1 ,atlanta1 ,georgia and ,tad ,book1 student1 ,pontifical ,north ,american ,college1 ,rome4 ,,the ,,holy ,,bible ,translated from the ,latin ,vulgate ,diligently ,compared with the ,hebrew1 ,greek1 and ,other ,editions in ,divers ,languages ,,the ,,old ,,testament ,first ,published by the ,english ,college at ,douay ,a4,d4 #afji #afaj and ,,the ,,new ,,testament ,first ,published by the ,english ,college at ,rheims ,a4,d4 #aehb ,with ,annotations ,the ,whole ,revised and ,diligently ,compared with the ,latin ,vulgate by ,bishop ,richard ,challoner ,a4,d4 #agdi-ageb ,,the ,,first ,,epistle ,,of ,,st4 ,,peter ,,the ,,apostle ,the first ,epistle of ,st4 ,peter1 though brief1 contains much doctrine concerning ,faith1 ,hope1 and ,charity1 with divers instructions to all persons of what state or condition soever4 ,the ,apostle commands submission to rulers and superiors and exhorts all to the practice of a virtuous life in imitation1 of ,christ4 ,this ,epistle is written with such apostolical dignity as to manifest the supreme authority with which its writer1 the ,prince of the ,apostles1 had been vested by his ,lord and ,master1 ,jesus ,christ4 ,he wrote it at ,rome1 which figuratively he calls ,babylon1 about fifteen years after our ,lord's ,ascension4 #a ,peter ,chapter #a ,he gives thanks to ,god for the benefit of our being called to the true faith and to eternal life1 into which we are to enter by many tribulations4 ,he exhorts to holiness of life1 considering the holiness of ,god and our redemption by the blood of ,christ4 #a3a4 ,peter1 an apostle of ,jesus ,christ1 to the strangers dispersed through ,pontus1 ,cappadocia1 ,asia and ,bithynia1 elect1 #a3b4 ,according to the foreknowledge of ,god the ,father1 unto the sanctification of the ,spirit1 unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of ,jesus ,christ4 ,grace unto you and peace be multiplied4 #a3c4 ,blessed be the ,god and ,father of our ,lord ,jesus ,christ1 who according to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope1 by the resurrection of ,jesus ,christ from the dead3 #a3d4 ,unto an inheritance1 incorruptible1 and undefiled and that cannot fade1 reserved in heaven for you1 #a3e4 ,who1 by the power of ,god1 are kept by faith unto salvation1 ready to be revealed in the last time4 #a3f4 ,wherein you shalt greatly rejoice1 if now you must be for a little time made sorrowful in divers temptations3 #a3g4 ,that the trial of your faith 7much more precious than gold which is tried by the fire7 may be found unto praise and glory and honour at the appearing of ,jesus ,christ4 #a3h4 ,whom having not seen1 you love3 in whom also now though you see him not1 you believe and1 believing1 shall rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorified2 #a3i4 ,receiving the end of your faith1 even the salvation of your souls4 #a3aj4 ,of which salvation the prophets have inquired and diligently searched1 who prophesied of the grace to come in you4 #a3aa4 ,searching what or what manner of time the ,spirit of ,christ in them did signify1 when it foretold those sufferings that are in ,christ and the glories that should follow4 #a3ab4 ,to whom it was revealed that1 not to themselves but to you1 they ministered those things which are now declared to you by them that have preached the gospel to you3 the ,holy ,ghost being sent down from heaven1 on whom the angels desire to look4 #a3ac4 ,wherefore1 having the loins of your mind girt up1 being sober1 trust perfectly in the grace which is offered you in the revelation of ,jesus ,christ4 #a3ad4 ,as children of obedience1 not fashioned according to the former desires of your ignorance1 #a3ae4 ,but according to him that hath called you1 who is holy1 be you also in all manner of conversation holy3 #a3af4 ,because it is written3 ,you shall be holy1 for ,i am holy4 #a3ag4 ,and if you invoke as ,father him who1 without respect of persons1 judgeth according to every one's work3 converse in fear during the time of your sojourning here4 #a3ah4 ,knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things1 as gold or silver1 from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers3 #a3ai4 ,but with the precious blood of ,christ1 as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled4 #a3bj4 ,foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world1 but manifested in the last times for you3 #a3ba4 ,who through him are faithful in ,god who raised him up from the dead and hath given him glory1 that your faith and hope might be in ,god4 #a3bb4 ,purifying your souls in the obedience of charity1 with a brotherly love1 from a sincere heart love one another earnestly3 #a3bc4 ,being born again1 not of corruptible seed1 but incorruptible1 by the word of ,god who liveth and remaineth for ever4 #a3bd4 ,for all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass4 ,the grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away4 #a3be4 ,but the word of the ,lord endureth for ever4 ,and this is the word which by the gospel hath been preached unto you4 #a ,peter ,chapter #b ,we are to lay aside all guile and go to ,christ the living stone1 and1 as being now his people1 walk worthily of him1 with submission to superiors and patience under sufferings4 #b3a4 ,wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions1 #b3b4 ,as newborn babes1 desire the rational milk without guile1 that thereby you may grow unto salvation3 #b3c4 ,if so be you have tasted that the ,lord is sweet4 #b3d4 ,unto whom coming1 as to a living stone1 rejected indeed by men but chosen and made honourable by ,god3 #b3e4 ,be you also as living stones built up1 a spiritual house1 a holy priesthood1 to offer up spiritual sacrifices1 acceptable to ,god by ,jesus ,christ4 #b3f4 ,wherefore it is said in the scripture3 ,behold1 ,i lay in ,sion a chief corner stone1 elect1 precious4 ,and he that shall believe in him shall not be confounded4 #b3g4 ,to you therefore that believe1 he is honour3 but to them that believe not1 the stone which the builders rejected1 the same is made the head of the corner3 #b3h4 ,and a stone of stumbling and a rock of scandal1 to them who stumble at the word1 neither do believe1 whereunto also they are set4 #b3i4 ,but you are a chosen generation1 a kingly priesthood1 a holy nation1 a purchased people3 that you may declare his virtues1 who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light3 #b3aj4 ,who in times past were not a people3 but are now the people of ,god4 ,who had not obtained mercy3 but now have obtained mercy4 #b3aa4 ,dearly beloved1 ,i beseech you1 as strangers and pilgrims1 to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul1 #b3ab4 ,having your conversation good among the ,gentiles3 that whereas they speak against you as evildoers1 they may1 by the good works which they shall behold in you1 glorify ,god in the day of visitation4 #b3ac4 ,be ye subject therefore to every human creature for ,god's sake3 whether it be to the king as excelling1 #b3ad4 ,or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good4 #b3ae4 ,for so is the will of ,god1 that by doing well you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men3 #b3af4 ,as free and not as making liberty a cloak for malice1 but as the servants of ,god4 #b3ag4 ,honour all men4 ,love the brotherhood4 ,fear ,god4 ,honour the king4 #b3ah4 ,servants1 be subject to your masters with all fear1 not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward4 #b3ai4 ,for this is thankworthy3 if1 for conscience towards ,god1 a man endure sorrows1 suffering wrongfully4 #b3bj4 ,for what glory is it1 if1 committing sin and being buffeted for it1 you endure8 ,but if doing well you suffer patiently3 this is thankworthy before ,god4 #b3ba4 ,for unto this are you called3 because ,christ also suffered for us1 leaving you an example that you should follow his steps4 #b3bb4 ,who did no sin1 neither was guile found in his mouth4 #b3bc4 ,who1 when he was reviled1 did not revile3 when he suffered1 he threatened not1 but delivered himself to him that judged him unjustly4 #b3bd4 ,who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree3 that we1 being dead to sins1 should live to justice3 by whose stripes you were healed4 #b3be4 ,for you were as sheep going astray3 but you are now converted to the shepherd and bishop of your souls4 #a ,peter ,chapter #c ,how wives are to behave to their husbands4 ,what ornaments they are to seek4 ,exhortations to divers ,virtues4 #c3a4 ,in like manner also1 let wives be subject to their husbands3 that1 if any believe not the word1 they may be won without the word1 by the conversation of the wives1 #c3b4 ,considering your chaste conversation with fear4 #c3c4 ,whose adorning1 let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair1 or the wearing of gold1 or the putting on of apparel3 #c3d4 ,but the hidden man of the heart1 in the incorruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit which is rich in the sight of ,god4 #c3e4 ,for after this manner heretofore1 the holy women also who trusted in ,god adorned themselves1 being in subjection to their own husbands3 #c3f4 ,as ,sara obeyed ,abraham1 calling him lord3 whose daughters you are1 doing well and not fearing any disturbance4 #c3g4 ,ye husbands1 likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge1 giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life3 that your prayers be not hindered4 #c3h4 ,and in fine1 be ye all of one mind1 having compassion one of another1 being lovers of the brotherhood1 merciful1 modest1 humble3 #c3i4 ,not rendering evil for evil1 nor railing for railing1 but contrariwise1 blessing3 for unto this are you called1 that you may inherit a blessing4 #c3aj4 ,for he that will love life and see good days1 let him refrain his tongue from evil1 and his lips that they speak no guile4 #c3aa4 ,let him decline from evil and do good3 ,let him seek after peace and pursue it3 #c3ab4 ,because the eyes of the ,lord are upon the just1 and his ears unto their prayers but the countenance of the ,lord upon them that do evil things4 #c3ac4 ,and who is he that can hurt you1 if you be zealous of good8 #c3ad4 ,but if also you suffer any thing for justice' sake1 blessed are ye4 ,and be not afraid of their fear3 and be not troubled4 #c3ae4 ,but sanctify the ,lord ,christ in your hearts1 being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in you4 #c3af4 ,but with modesty and fear1 having a good conscience3 that whereas they speak evil of you1 they may be ashamed who falsely accuse your good conversation in ,christ4 #c3ag4 ,for it is better doing well 7if such be the will of ,god7 to suffer than doing ill4 #c3ah4 ,because ,christ also died once for our sins1 the just for the unjust3 that he might offer us to ,god1 being put to death indeed in the flesh1 but enlivened in the spirit1 #c3ai4 ,in which also coming he preached to those spirits that were in prison3 ,spirits that were in prison444 ,see here a proof of a third place1 or middle state of souls3 for these spirits in prison1 to whom ,christ went to preach1 after his death1 were not in heaven2 nor yet in the hell of the damned3 because heaven is no prison3 and ,christ did not go to preach to the damned4 #c3bj4 ,which had been some time incredulous1 when they waited for the patience of ,god in the days of ,noe1 when the ark was a building3 wherein a few1 that is1 eight souls1 were saved by water4 #c3ba4 ,whereunto baptism1 being of the like form1 now saveth you also3 not the putting away of the filth of the flesh1 but1 the examination of a good conscience towards ,god by the resurrection of ,jesus ,christ4 ,whereunto baptism1 etc444 ,baptism is said to be of the like form with the water by which ,noe was saved1 because the one was a figure of the other4 ,not the putting away1 etc444 ,as much as to say1 that baptism has not its efficacy1 in order to salvation1 from its washing away any bodily filth or dirt2 but from its purging the conscience from sin1 when accompanied with suitable dispositions in the party1 to answer the interrogations made at that time1 with relation to faith1 the renouncing of ,satan with all his works2 and the obedience to ,god's commandments4 #c3bb4 ,who is on the right hand of ,god1 swallowing down death that we might be made heirs of life everlasting3 being gone into heaven1 the angels and powers and virtues being made subject to him4 #a ,peter ,chapter #d ,exhortations to cease from sin1 to mutual charity1 to do all for the glory of ,god1 to be willing to suffer for ,christ4 #d3a4 ,christ therefore having suffered in the flesh1 be you also armed with the same thought3 for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sins3 #d3b4 ,that now he may live the rest of his time in the flesh1 not after the desires of men but according to the will of ,god4 #d3c4 ,for the time past is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the ,gentiles1 for them who have walked in riotousness1 lusts1 excess of wine1 revellings1 banquetings and unlawful worshipping of idols4 #d3d4 ,wherein they think it strange that you run not with them into the same confusion of riotousness3 speaking evil of you4 #d3e4 ,who shall render account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead4 #d3f4 ,for1 for this cause was the gospel preached also to the dead3 ,that they might be judged indeed according to men1 in the flesh3 but may live according to ,god1 in the ,spirit4 #d3g4 ,but the end of all is at hand4 ,be prudent therefore and watch in prayers4 #d3h4 ,but before all things have a constant mutual charity among yourselves3 for charity covereth a multitude of sins4 #d3i4 ,using hospitality one towards another1 without murmuring1 #d3aj4 ,as every man hath received grace1 ministering the same one to another3 as good stewards of the manifold grace of ,god4 #d3aa4 ,if any man speak1 let him speak1 as the words of ,god4 ,if any minister1 let him do it1 as of the power which ,god administereth3 that in all things ,god may be honoured through ,jesus ,christ3 to whom is glory and empire for ever and ever4 ,amen4 #d3ab4 ,dearly beloved1 think not strange the burning heat which is to try you3 as if some new thing happened to you4 #d3ac4 ,but if you partake of the sufferings of ,christ1 rejoice that1 when his glory shall be revealed1 you may also be glad with exceeding joy4 #d3ad4 ,if you be reproached for the name of ,christ1 you shall be blessed3 for that which is of the honour1 glory and power of ,god1 and that which is his ,spirit resteth upon you4 #d3ae4 ,but let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or a railer or coveter of other men's things4 #d3af4 ,but1 if as a ,christian1 let him not be ashamed3 but let him glorify ,god in that name4 #d3ag4 ,for the time is1 that judgment should begin at the house of ,god4 ,and if at first at us1 what shall be the end of them that believe not the gospel of ,god8 #d3ah4 ,and if the just man shall scarcely be saved1 where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear8 ,scarcely444 ,that is1 not without much labour and difficulty2 and because of the dangers which constantly surround1 the temptations of the world1 of the devil1 and of our own corrupt nature4 #d3ai4 ,wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of ,god commend their souls in good deeds to the faithful ,creator4 #a ,peter ,chapter #e ,he exhorts both priests and laity to their respective duties and recommends to all humility and watchfulness4 #e3a4 ,the ancients therefore that are among you1 ,i beseech who am myself also an ancient and a witness of the sufferings of ,christ1 as also a partaker of that glory which is to be revealed in time to come3 #e3b4 ,feed the flock of ,god which is among you1 taking care of it1 not by constraint but willingly1 according to ,god3 not for filthy lucre's sake but voluntarily3 #e3c4 ,neither as lording it over the clergy but being made a pattern of the flock from the heart4 #e3d4 ,and when the prince of pastors shall appear1 you shall receive a never fading crown of glory4 #e3e4 ,in like manner1 ye young men1 be subject to the ancients4 ,and do you all insinuate humility one to another3 for ,god resisteth the proud1 but to the humble he giveth grace4 #e3f4 ,be you humbled therefore under the mighty hand of ,god1 that he may exalt you in the time of visitation3 #e3g4 ,casting all your care upon him1 for he hath care of you4 #e3h4 ,be sober and watch3 because your adversary the devil1 as a roaring lion1 goeth about seeking whom he may devour4 #e3i4 ,whom resist ye1 strong in faith3 knowing that the same affliction befalls1 your brethren who are in the world4 #e3aj4 ,but the ,god of all grace1 who hath called us unto his eternal glory in ,christ ,jesus1 after you have suffered a little1 will himself perfect you and confirm you and establish you4 #e3aa4 ,to him be glory and empire1 for ever and ever4 ,amen4 #e3ab4 ,by ,sylvanus1 a faithful brother unto you1 as ,i think1 ,i have written briefly3 beseeching and testifying that this is the true grace of ,god1 wherein you stand4 #e3ac4 ,the church that is in ,babylon1 elected together with you1 saluteth you4 ,and so doth my son1 ,mark4 #e3ad4 ,salute one another with a holy kiss4 ,grace be to all you who are in ,christ ,jesus4 ,amen4