A commentary

Name: A commentary
Author: Nicholas Byfield

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.

Nicholas Byfield 1579–1622London: printed by Humphrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623London: printed by Humfrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623

[16], 922, [6] p. · 245k words · STC 4211 · ESTC S107078

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AN EXPOSITION of the Second Chapter of the first Epistle general o… › Verses 9, and 10. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal Priest…: Verses 9, and 10. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal Priest hood, an holy Nation…AN EXPOSITION of the Second Chapter of the first Epistle generall o… › Verses 9, and 10. But yee are a chosen generation, a royall Priest…: Verses 9, and 10. But yee are a chosen generation, a royall Priest hood, an holy Nation…

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Thirdly, then God sends the Word of reconciliation, furnishing men with gifts to preach the Gospel, and so useth their ministry of reconciliation, as the only ordinary means of calling men, 2. Cor. 5.18, 19. Rom. 10.14, 17.

Thirdly, then God sends the Word of reconciliation, furnishing men with gifts to preach the Gospell, and so vseth their ministery of reconciliation, as the onely ordinary meanes of calling men, 2. Cor. 5.18, 19. Rom. 10.14, 17.

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Fourthly, the Spirit of Christ doth inwardly persuade the harts of men to receive the Word, and so to be reconciled to God.

Fourthly, the Spirit of Christ doth inwardly perswade the harts of men to receiue the Word, and so to be reconciled to God.

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¹The use of this doctrine of our Christian calling may serve both for instruction, and for terror: for instruction, and so it may teach,

¹The vse of this doctrine of our Christian calling may serue both for instruction, and for terror: for instruction, and so it may teach,

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