A17384:1063
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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Builders.]
Quest. A question may be moved here for the sense; viz. how the Scribes and Pharisees, and such like men can be said to be builders?
Quest. A question may be moued heere for the sense; viz. how the Scribes and Pharises, and such like men can be sayd to be builders?
1Ans. For answer whereunto, we must understand, that the Scribes and Pharisees, and so wicked men, that possess eminent places in the Church, may be said to be builders. First, in the account of the multitude, whatsoever they were indeed; yet they were commonly so accounted, as builders, and prime men in managing the affairs of the Church. Secondly, the Scribes and Pharisees may be acknowledged in some respects as builders indeed: they did God some work. For howsoever they did not soundly teach Christ, yet they drew the people by their doctrine, to avoid on the right hand the Stoical strictness of the Essenes, and on the left hand the profane irreligiousness of the Sadducees. Thirdly, they were builders by calling: they have the name not so much, from what they were, as from what men in their places had been, or ought to have been: And these are the persons that oppose CHRIST, and are thus severely judged of God.
1Ans. For answere whereunto, we must vnderstand, that the Scribes and Pharises, and so wicked men, that possesse eminent places in the Church, may be said to be builders. First, in the account of the multitude, whatsoeuer they were indeed; yet they were commonly so accounted, as builders, and prime men in managing the affaires of the Church. Secondly, the Scribes and Pharises may be acknowledged in some respects as builders indeed: they did God some worke. For howsoeuer they did not soundly teach Christ, yet they drew the people by their doctrine, to auoid on the right hand the Stoicall strictnesse of the Essenes, and on the left hand the prophane irreligiousnesse of the Sadduces. Thirdly, they were builders by calling: they haue the name not so much, from what they were, as from what men in their places had been, or ought to haue been: And these are the persons that oppose CHRIST, and are thus seuerely iudged of God.