A17384:235
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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Secondly, Longing and appetite after it, as true and certain, as the very appetite of a child ⟨p. 52⟩is to the breast: This is expressed by the similitudes of panting, thirsting, and watching after the word in divers scriptures: and when this longing is more vehement, it is set out by the passion of fainting for it, and of the breaking of the soul for it: Psal. 42.1. et 84.2. et 119.20.40. et 131.
Secondly, Longing and appetite after it, as true and certaine, as the very appetite of a childe ⟨p. 52⟩is to the brest: This is expressed by the similitudes of panting, thirsting, and watching after the word in diuers scriptures: and when this longing is more vehement, it is set out by the passion of fainting for it, and of the breaking of the soule for it: Psal. 42.1. et 84.2. et 119.20.40. et 131.
Thirdly, Satisfaction and contentment, when we speed well in the word: As the child is quieted, and sleepeth in the rest and virtue of the milk it hath received: David, saith his soul was satisfied, as with marrow: Psal. 63.1.5. and is granted of all the godly and chosen ones, Psa. 65.4. When it is sweet like honey to our taste. Psal. 119.103.
Thirdly, Satisfaction and contentment, when wee speed well in the word: As the child is quieted, and sleepeth in the rest and vertue of the milk it hath receiued: Dauid, saith his soule was satisfied, as with marrow: