A17384:2238
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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First, they are tried by the covenant of grace, by the benefit of which covenant he is delivered ⟨p. 508⟩from the rigorous perfection of the Law, and his uprightness is accepted in stead of perfection:1 he is now no more under the Law but, by God's grace & acceptation, his works are taken as if they had been perfect.
First, they are tryed by the couenant of grace, by the benefit of which couenant hee is deliuered ⟨p. 508⟩from the rigorous perfection of the Law, and his vprightnes is accepted in stead of perfection:1 he is now no more vnder the Law but, by God's grace & acceptation, his works are taken as if they had been perfect.
- 1How a godly man may comfort himself in his works.
Secondly, he hath the benefit of Christ's intercession, who presenteth his works before God, covering the evil of them, and tendering them to God, who accepts them for the love he bears to his Son: and thus we read in Scripture, that Christ presents the prayers of the Saints.
Secondly, he hath the benefit of Christ's intercession, who presenteth his works before God, couering the euill of them, and tendering them to God, who accepts them for the loue hee beares to his Sonne: and thus we read in Scripture, that Christ presents the praiers of the Saints.