EXPOSITORY DISCOURSES

ON THE

FIRST EPISTLE OF PETER.

VOL. I.

Scriptura non potest intelligi theologicé, nisi antea intellecta sit grammaticé. MELANCTHON.

Interpretationem librorum sacrorum esse summum idemque difficillimum Theologi munus, ipsa res, et ratio, et usus, et omnium meliorum seculorum consensus docet. Nam omnis certa veritatis divinæ et scientia, et defensio, e sacrarum literarum intelligentia et accurata interpretatione ducitur; et cum interpretandarum literarum sacrarum studio, et lapsa et restituta est religionis Christianæ puritas.

ERNESTI.

ON THE

FIRST EPISTLE OF THE APOSTLE PETER.

BY JOHN BROWN, D. D.,

SENIOR MINISTER OF THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATION, BROUGHTON
PLACE, EDINBURGH, AND PROFESSOR OF EXEGETICAL THEOLOGY
TO THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

EDINBURGH: WILLIAM OLIPHANT AND SONS.

EDINBURGH: ALEXANDER PADON. GLASGOW: DAVID ROBERTSON.
LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND COMPANY.

MDCCCXLVIII.

TO THE

UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATION OF

BROUGHTON PLACE,

AND SPECIALLY

TO HIS FELLOW-LABOURER IN WORD AND DOCTRINE,

THE REVEREND ANDREW THOMSON, B.A.,

AND THE OTHER

BRETHREN OF THE ELDERSHIP,

WILLIAM RENTON, JAMES GREIG, JAMES YOUNG, JAMES CORNWALL, ADAM GIB ELLIS, WILLIAM MATHESON, GEORGE CLARK, ROBERT ELLIS, JAMES LAWRIE, JAMES LEECHMAN, JAMES MARSHALL, JAMES LEISHMAN, GEORGE MÉMILLAN,

GEORGE BARTHOLOMEW, WILLIAM CALDERWOOD,

THESE EXPOSITORY DISCOURSES

ARE RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED

BY

THE AUTHOR.