A17384:1308
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.
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.
These words, with those that follow, are in Exodus expounded, or rather propounded indefinitely to the Israelites, but in this place limited to the Elect only; which shows, that promises and privileges of right belong only to the Elect and Chosen of God, &c.
These words, with those that follow, are in Exodus expounded, or rather propounded indefinitely to the Israelites, but in this place limited to the Elect onely; which shewes, that promises and priuiledges of right belong onely to the Elect and Chosen of God, &c.