A17384:1001
A commentary
A commentary: or, sermons upon the second chapter of the first epistle of Saint Peter wherein method, sense, doctrine, and use, is, with great variety of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of divinity largely discussed. By Nicholas Byfield, late preacher of God's Word at Isle-worth in Middlesex.A commentary: or, sermons vpon the second chapter of the first epistle of Saint Peter vvherein method, sense, doctrine, and vse, is, with great variety of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of diuinity largely discussed. By Nicholas Byfield, late preacher of God's Word at Isle-worth in Middlesex.
London: printed by Humphrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623London: printed by Humfrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623
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First, he must acknowledge, that by nature he ⟨p. 223⟩stands bound to observe all the moral Law.
First, he must acknowledge, that by nature he ⟨p. 223⟩stands bound to obserue all the morall Law.
Secondly, he must see, that he hath broken all those holy laws of God, and is therefore guilty before God of the curses of the Law, and so of eternal condemnation.
Secondly, he must see, that he hath broken all those holy lawes of God, and is therefore guilty before God of the curses of the Law, and so of eternall condemnation.
Thirdly, he must know, that GOD sent his own Son in the flesh to obey the Law, and satisfy the justice of God, by making an expiation for mans sins.
Thirdly, he must knowe, that GOD sent his owne Son in the flesh to obey the Law, and satisfie the iustice of God, by making an expiation for mans sins.