 | John Flavel - 1689 - 412 pages
...continuance of it that you now have. If you look into 1 Peter, 3 : 19, 20, you there find that Christ " went and preached unto the spirits in prison ; which sometime...when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah." The meaning of which is, that in the days before the flood, Christ by his Spirit strove... | |
 | Matthew Horbery - 1744 - 306 pages
...Christ's preaching to them by the Spirit, was evidently in the Days of their Flesh ; even then when they were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the Days of Noah, while the A rk was preparing. Noah was a Preacher of Righteousness to that Generation, and their rejecting... | |
 | Samuel Westcott - 1762 - 276 pages
...preached to the Spirits in Prifon, which fometime were difobedient, lichen once the Long- fuffenng of God waited in the Days of Noah while the Ark was preparing, wherein few, that is eight, Souls were faved by Water. Chrift, by his Spirit in NOAH, a Preacher of... | |
 | John Leland - 1769 - 554 pages
...eminent among them. And accordingly the fame Apoftle elfe where obferves, that the Long-fujf'ering of God waited in the Days of Noah, while the Ark •was preparing, wherein few, that is, eight Souls, were faved by Water, i Pet. iii. 20. At the fame Time that God exhibited... | |
 | Shippie Townsend - 1773 - 90 pages
...Spirit went an4 preached to thofe fpirits in prifon, who were difobedient, when the longbuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing, ill Peter iii. 19, 20. This may be further illuftrated from the inftance of Cain and Abel. Cain Sew... | |
 | Stephen Johnson - 1786 - 434 pages
...preached unto the foirits in priibn ; which fpmetiine were difobedient, when once the long-fuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing, &c. But this conftruction is inconfiftent with the letter of the text, which fpeaks exprefsly of "... | |
 | William Jones - 1789 - 460 pages
...the Jamily of Jefus Chrift in the Ark of the Church by the waters of Baptifm : the long fuff'ering of God waited in the days of Noah, •while the ark was preparing, wherein few, that is eight fouls were fayed by 'water. A like figure whereunto, even Baptifin doth... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 260 pages
...chiefly upon St. Peter, 1 Pet. ii. 5. " Noah, a preacher of righteousness," and I Pet. iii. 19, 20. " By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison, which sometimes were disohedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noaht" As what... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1798 - 492 pages
...i Pet. iii. St. Peter tells us, they were difobedient, when once -the "pet. ii. e. lon&fuffenn£ of God waited in the days of Noah, while 'the ark was preparing ; that is (as is collected by feveral interpreters from the text of .the ftory) durGen. T!. 3. ing... | |
 | 1804 - 508 pages
...in which, at least, his soul was employed while it was there; being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit." " By which also he went...spirits in prison, which sometime were disobedient." The interpretation of this whole passage turns upon the expression " Spirits in prison;" the sense... | |
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For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit : by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison... 
