A17384:23
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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For the first there are two things, in which if we be rightly ordered, it cannot be, but we must grow wonderfully in grace and holiness: first, The one is the word: secondly, The other is Christ. To a right order of ourselves in respect of the word, he exhorts, verses 1.2.3. To a right order of our selves in respect of Christ, he exhorts, verse 4. to 11.
For the first there are two things, in which if wee be rightly ordered, it cannot bee, but wee must grow wonderfully in grace and holiness: first, The one is the word: secondly, The other is Christ. To a right order of ourselues in respect of the word, he exhorts, verses 1.2.3. To a right order of our selues in respect of Christ, hee exhortes, verse 4. to 11.
The part of the exhortation, that concerns the word, hath three things. First, what we must avoid, we must lay aside Malice, Guile, Hypocrisy, &c. secondly, what we must do, we must desire the word, as the child doth the breast: thirdly, Why so; where divers reasons are imported. First, we are babes: Secondly, we are but as new born babes: ⟨p. 3⟩Thirdly, the word is sincere milk ▪ Fourthly, it will make us grow: fifthly, have we not already tasted of the sweetness of it? verse the third.
The part of the exhortation, that concernes the word, hath three things. First, what wee must auoid, we must lay aside Malice, Guile, Hipocrisie, &c. secondly, what we must doe, wee must desire the word, as the child doth the brest: thirdly, Why so; where diuers reasons are imported. First, wee are babes: Secondly, we are but as new born babes: ⟨p. 3⟩Thirdly, the word is sincere milke ▪ Fourthly, it will make vs growe: fiftly, haue wee not already tasted of the sweetnes of it? verse the third.