A17384:1213
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
In themselves it is their stumbling at the word, and their disobedience.
In themselues it is their stumbling at the word, and their disobedience.
To them which stumble at the Word.]
There is a diverse reading. The old reading was thus: To them that offend in the Word; noting ⟨p. 273⟩either in general, that Gods word, or Christ, doth not profit these men that were guilty of evil speaking, and the gross abuses of the tongue: or in particular, it should note the sins of the stubborn Jews, who offended in word, when they blasphemed Christ, and denied him.
There is a diuerse reading. The old reading was thus: To them that offend in the Word; noting ⟨p. 273⟩either in general, that Gods word, or Christ, doth not profit these men that were guilty of euill speaking, and the grosse abuses of the toung: or in particular, it should note the sinnes of the stubborne Iewes, who offended in word, when they blasphemed Christ, and denied him.