A17384:1103
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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Ans. I answer many ways.
Ans. I answer many waies.
First,1 when they will not preach in his name: when they preach not at all: For this is to let Christ live, as it were in the rubbish still, and not to separate him out for the building, &c.
First,1 when they will not preach in his name: when they preach not at all: For this is to let Christ liue, as it were in the rubbish still, and not to separate him out for the building, &c.
- 1How Churchmen, viz. builders may refuse Christ.
Secondly, when in preaching they preach themselves, & not Christ crucified, leaving the word of Christ, to show their own wit & learning, &c.
Secondly, whē in preaching they preach themselues, & not Christ crucefied, leauing the word of Christ, to shew their owne wit & learning, &c.