A17384:1503
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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Fourthly, adoption; by which he acknowledgeth and receiveth them for his sons and heirs.
Fourthly, adoption; by which hee acknowledgeth and receiueth them for his sonnes and heirs.
Fifthly, Christian liberty; by which he frees them from all things that might hold them in bondage, or in a servile condition; as, from the rigour and curse of the Law, from the dominion of sin, from the burden of Moses ceremonies, and humane traditions, and from those servile ⟨p. 337⟩fears in God's service, bred by the spirit of bondage.
Fiftly, Christian liberty; by which hee frees them from all things that might hold them in bondage, or in a seruile condition; as, from the rigour and curse of the Law, from the dominion of sinne, from the burden of Moses ceremonies, and humane traditions, and from those seruile ⟨p. 337⟩fears in God's seruice, bred by the spirit of bondage.
Sixthly, consolation; by which he keeps them in this happy condition: which he performeth three ways.
Sixtly, consolation; by which he keeps them in this happy condition: which hee performeth three waies.