A17384:1151
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now, that we may know, what offence or scandal is, we may be helped by the Etymology of the original words: For Scandal in the original is either derived of a word that signifies, to halt, or else it noteth any thing that lieth in a mans way a stone, or a piece of wood, against which, he that runneth, stumbleth, and so hurteth or hindereth himself: It most properly signifieth rest, or a certain crooked piece with a bait upon it in instruments, by which mice, or wolves or foxes are taken: and thence the Church translated the name of scandal; to note the snares, by which men are catched, as beasts are in grins, and baits: so the word, it seems, is used.
Now, that we may know, what offence or scandal is, we may be helped by the Etimology of the originall words: For Scandall in the originall is either deriued of a word that signifies, to halt, or els it noteth any thing that lieth in a mans way a stone, or a piece of wood, against which, he that runneth, stumbleth, and so hurteth or hindreth himselfe: It most properly signifieth rest, or a certaine crooked piece with a baite vpon it in instruments, by which mice, or wolues or foxes are taken: and thence the Church translated the name of scandall; to note the snares, by which men are catched, as beastes are in grins, and baites: so the word, it seemes, is vsed.
So then,1 a scandal is any thing, which causeth, or occasioneth offences, by which a man is made to halt, or is brought into a snare, or made to stand still, or fall in matter of Religion, or salvation: And so the sorcerers were a stumbling block to Pharaoh, and the false prophets to Ahab, and the lying signs of Antichrist, to such as love not the truth.
So then,1 a scandall is any thing, which causeth, or occasioneth offences, by which a man is made to halt, or is brought into a snare, or made to stand still, or fall in matter of Religion, or saluation: And so the sorcerers were a stumbling block to Pharaoh, and the false prophets to Ahab, and the lying signes of Antichrist, to such as loue not the truth.