A17384:1490
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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1First, because they are such virtues as are had only by such as be in Christ by effectual calling: for, all the Wicked are strangers from the life of God.
1First, because they are such vertues as are had onely by such as bee in Christ by effectuall calling: for, all the Wicked are strangers from the life of God.
- 1Why the virtues in us, are called the virtues of Christ.Why the vertues in vs, are called the vertues of Christ.
Thirdly, because they are showed forth for his glory. All our gifts and services are devoted to the glory of Christ: as they are in him, so they are for him.