A17384:1307
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.
The Apostle makes a comely and effectual inversion of the words recorded in Exodus 19: for, there they are said to be a Kingdom of Priests, which the Apostle more plainly expresses in the words, A royal Priest-hood.
The Apostle makes a comely and effectuall inuersion of the words recorded in Exodus 19: for, there they are said to be a Kingdome of Priests, which the Apostle more plainly expresses in the words, A royall Priest-hood.
They are both Kings and Priests, but both with difference from other men of either of those callings. They are Kings, not profane or civill only, but sacred Kings: they are Priests, not common or typical Priests, but royal.
They are both Kings and Priests, but both with difference from other men of either of those callings. They are Kings, not prophane or ciuill onely, but sacred Kings: they are Priests, not common or typicall Priests, but royall.
The one word tells their dignity to which they are ordained; the other, their office in respect of God.
The one word tels their dignity to which they are ordained; the other, their office in respect of God.