A17384:1121
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, It shows us the end of the oppositions of all wicked men: Christ shall increase and prosper, and they shall be confounded and perish.
Secondly, It shewes vs the end of the oppositions of all wicked men: Christ shall increase and prosper, and they shall bee confounded and perish.
Thirdly, It should especially enforce the necessity of believing in Christ: we should lye upon him with all our weight, as the building doth on the foundation.
Thirdly, It should especially enforce the necessity of beleeuing in Christ: we should lye vpon him with all our waight, as the building doth on the foundation.
Fourthly, It should comfort us in all distresses, considering what end God gave to the sufferings of Christ, and so it is urged, Hebr. 12.2.
Fourthly, It should comfort vs in all distresses, considering what end God gaue to the sufferings of Christ, and so it is vrged, Hebr. 12.2.