Vse 1. This may serve for to comfort us, because we doe abound in this grace, our hearts ought to be strengthened against all terrours.
2. To exhort us, that as this grace doth abound, so should our thankfulnesse also abound in all practise of piety; for he that hath received much, of him is much required.
Doctrine 7. So great is the excellency of the grace and salvation offered unto us by Christ, that even the Angels themselves desire to looke into it.
This is gathered out of those words, which things the Angels desire to look into. So 1 Timothy 3.16. you may see it proved.
Reason. Because there are some things in this mysterie, which the Angels themselves are yet ignorant of, Matthew 24.36. into those things they desire to look, that they may know them: into other things that they do know they desire also to looke that they may delight themselves in beholding the glory of God, as it were in a glasse.
Vse. This may serve to admonish us, never to be weary of searching into these holy mysteries, whether it be in hearing the Word of God in publick, or in reading and meditating upon it in private.
Verse 13. Wherefore gird up the loynes of your minde, be sober, and hope to the end, for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
Verse 14. As obedient children, not fashioning your selves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
Verse 15. But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;