A17384:2150
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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1. Before the Law: Ismael scoffs at Isaac: and Josephs brethren scorn and revile him. Job was accused as an Hypocrite by his own friends, and scorned by the basest of the people, Job 30.1. So was it with Moses and the Israelites, Heb. 11.26. 2. Under the Law. David was slandered by many, Psal. 31.12. The abjects tear his name, and ceased not, Psal. 35.15. The drunkards sang of him, Psa. 69.13. he was a reproach of men, a by word, a proverb, &c. So in the Prophet Essays time, Isaiah 8.18. and 59.16. and 51.8. Jeremiah complains, that they consulted how to devise devices against him, and to smite him with the tongue. 3. Under the Gospel. 1. Look to the Author and finisher of our faith, Christ Jesus: he was charged with gluttony, ⟨p. 487⟩Mat. 11.18. blasphemy, Mat. 26.65. madness, Joh. 10.20. to be a deceiver, Joh. 7.22. and to have a devil, and work by the prince of devils. 2. The Apostles were made a spectacle to men and Angels, and accounted as the off-scouring of all things, 1. Cor. 4.9, 10, 13. 3. Yea it is foretold to be the case of all Christians, Math. 5.12. Gal. 4.29.
1. Before the Law: Ismael scoffes at Isaac: and Iosephs brethren scorne and reuile him. Iob was accused as an Hypocrite by his owne friends, and scorned by the basest of the people,