A17384:1499
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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And so the calling of a Christian is to be reckoned among the gifts or endowments God bestows upon his people: which that we may distinctly understand according to the order of them, there are seven gifts of God.
And so the calling of a Christian is to bee reckoned among the gifts or endowments God bestowes vpon his people: which that wee may distinctly vnderstand according to the order of them, there are seuen gifts of God.
7First, vocation; by which he calls men out of the world, into the Church.
- 7Gifts of God.
Secondly, justification; by which he forgives the Called their sins, and clothes them with the rich Robe of Christ's righteousness.
Secondly, iustification; by which he forgiues the Called their sins, and clothes them with the rich Robe of Christ's righteousnes.
Thirdly, sanctification; by which he qualifies their nature with all heavenly gifts necessary for their salvation.