A17384:1165
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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Christ is a stone of stumbling,1 not actively, but passively:2 he doth not make them stumble, but they through their ignorance (walking in darkness) or through their precipitation running headlong in things, or through the poison of some beloved sin, which hath altogether corrupted their taste, do fall at the Doctrine of Christ, or turn the precious things of Christ into poison, by reason of the venom lying in themselves.
Christ is a stone of stumbling,1 not actiuely, but passiuely:2 hee doth not make them stumble, but they through their ignorance (walking in darknes) or through their precipitation running headlong in things, or through the poison of some beloued sinne, which hath altogether corrupted their taste, doe fall at the Doctrine of Christ, or turne the precious things of Christ into poison, by reason of the venome lying in themselues.
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