A17384:1425
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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Note by the way, that it is the virtues of Christ that are to be imitated. For every thing in Christ is not to be imitated, As
Note by the way, that it is the vertues of Christ that are to be imitated. For euery thing in Christ is not to be imitated, As
1First, not his infirmities: for though they were unblameable, and without sin: yet they imported weakness: and so, though they be in us, yet we are not to strive after the attainment of them.
1First, not his infirmities: for though they were vnblameable, and without sin: yet they imported weaknes: and so, though they be in vs, yet wee are not to striue after the attainment of them.
- 1Five things we are not to imitate in Christ.Fiue things we are not to imitate in Christ.
Secondly, not his works of Divinity; as his miracles, curing of men with a word, walking on the water, fasting forty days, and such like.
Secondly, not his works of Diuinity; as his miracles, curing of men with a word, walking on the water, fasting forty daies, and such like.