A17384:1117
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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Secondly, the expressed punishment is the preferment of Christ, and the promoting of his Kingdom: He is made the Head of the corner: which words must be considered either in relation ⟨p. 246⟩to the builders, or in themselves, as they concern the exaltation of Christ. First, in relation to the builders, it imports, that it is a punishment to wicked Ministers that love not the Lord Jesus, that Christ and his Kingdom should flourish. As it fretted the Pharisees, so it doth and will fret the heart of wicked men, till the day of Christ; and it is a punishment, because of their envy at it, and because they find, that they have no part in Christ, or the happiness of his Kingdom, their consciences accusing them, and besides, because they are openly crossed in their oppositions, and so shamed before men. Which observation may serve for trial: For it is a certain note of a wicked man, who loves not the Lord Jesus, that he is crossed, and accounts himself afflicted, or shamed, because the Kingdom of Christ prospers.
Secondly, the exprest punishment is the preferment of Christ, and the promoting of his Kingdome: He is made the Head of the corner: which wordes must bee considered either in relation ⟨p. 246⟩to the builders, or in themselues, as they concerne the exaltation of Christ. First, in relation to the builders, it imports, that it is a punishment to wicked Ministers that loue not the Lord Iesus, that Christ and his Kingdom should flourish. As it fretted the Pharises, so it doth and will fret the heart of wicked men, till the day of Christ; and it is a punishment, because of their enuie at it, and because they finde, that they haue no part in Christ, or the happines of his Kingdome, their consciences accusing them, and besides, because they are openly crossed in their oppositions, and so shamed before men. Which obseruation may serue for triall: For it is a certaine note of a wicked man, who loues not the Lord Iesus, that hee is crossed, and accounts himselfe afflicted, or shamed, because the Kingdome of Christ prospers.