A17384:14
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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AN EXPOSITION of the Second Chapter of the first Epistle general of PETER.
AN EXPOSITION of the Second Chapter of the first Epistle generall of PETER.
1. Pet. 2.1.2.3. 1. Wherefore laying aside all maliciousness and all guile and dissimulation, and envy, and evil speakings: 2. As new borne Babes desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby; 3. If so be ye have tasted, that the Lord is bountiful.
1. Pet. 2.1.2.3. 1. Wherfore laying aside all maliciousnes and all guile and dissimulation, and enuy, and euill speakings: 2. As new borne Babes desire the sincere milke of the word, that ye may growe thereby; 3. If so be ye haue tasted, that the Lord is bountifull.
From the thirteenth verse of the 1.1 Chapt. to the eighth verse of the third chapter is contained matter of exhortation: and the exhortation is either general, or special: The general exhortation concerns all men. Chap. 1.13. to Chap. 2 13: The special exhortation concerns only some men, as ⟨p. 2⟩subjects, servants, wives, husbands, from chap. 2.13. to chap. 3.8.
FRom the thirteenth verse of the 1.