A17384:1516
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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4The first cause, is Gods love of men, his kindness and love to men, as the Apostle calls it, Tit. 3.4. First, that God conceives in himself a compassionate love of man, lying in his extreme natural distress.
4The first cause, is Gods loue of men, his kindnes and loue to men, as the Apostle calles it, Tit. 3.4. First, that God conceiues in himself a compassionate loue of man, lying in his extreme naturall distresse.
- 4things in the order of working our calling.
Secondly, Christ then as Mediator lays the ground of this calling, and so he doth two ways. First, by removing what might hinder the work, as the displeasure of God, and the curse of the Law, which he did, by being made sin for us, 2. Cor. 5.22. Secondly, by purchasing, and bringing to light immortality, and also the people that should possess it, which purchase he made with his own blood, Acts. 20.28. 2 Tim. 1.9, 10.
Secondly, Christ then as Mediator laies the ground of this calling, and so he doth two waies. First, by remoouing what might hinder the work, as the displeasure of God, and the curse of the Law, which he did, by being made sin for vs, 2. Cor. 5.22. Secondly, by purchasing, and bringing to light immortality, and also the people that should possesse it, which purchase he made with his owne bloud, Acts. 20.28.