A17384:1057
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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And it is the drift of the Apostle, to strengthen weak Christians against the scandal that might arise from the opposition of the Kingdom of Christ. For, it might trouble them, and amaze them, to consider how Christ was opposed by the Scribes and Pharisees, who were the great learned men of the time, and such as were eminent in the Church; and, in the account of the most men, were the chief persons that took care for Religion and the state of the Church, and did excel all other sorts, &c.
And it is the drift of the Apostle, to strengthen weak Christians against the scandall that might arise from the opposition of the Kingdome of Christ. For, it might trouble them, and amaze them, to consider how Christ was opposed by the Scribes and Pharises, who were the great learned men of the time, and such as were eminent in the Church; and, in the account of the most men, were the chief persons that took care for Religion and the state of the Church, and did excell all other sorts, &c.
Now, that this scandal might be removed, he shows in these words,
Now, that this scandall might be remoued, he shewes in these words,
First, that nothing did therein fall out, but what was the lot of David in his time.
First, that nothing did therein fall out, but what was the lot of Dauid in his time.