A17384:1320
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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Secondly, while the father lives, the little child cannot reign: whereas, in this Kingdom, little-ones attain to the Kingdom, and safely hold it, Mat. 18.
Secondly, while the father liues, the little childe cannot raign: whereas, in this Kingdom, little-ones attain to the Kingdome, and safely hold it, Mat. 18.
Thirdly, this kingdom is of heaven, whereas the others are only of the earth.
Thirdly, this kingdome is of heauen, whereas the others are onely of the earth.
Fourthly, these Kings are all just, there is none unrighteous can possess these thrones: They are all washed, justified and sanctified. There is not a drunkard, a railer, a buggerer, an adulterer, a murderer, or any the like amongst them, which is no privilege belonging to the kingdom of this world, Rom. 14.17. 1 Cor. 6.9, 10, 11. Gal. 5.21. The godly are Kings, such as Melchizedek was, somewhat obscure in the world, but they reign in righteousness, in peace, none like them, Heb. 7.
Fourthly, these Kings are all iust, there is none vnrighteous can possesse these thrones: They are all washed, iustified and sanctified. There is not a drunkard, a railer, a buggerer, an adulterer, a murtherer, or any the like amongst them, which is no priuiledge belonging to the kingdome of this world,