A17384:2372
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, he hath a new mind, he is renewed in the spirit of his mind:4 which appears, first, by his capableness in spiritual things: He that lately could not perceive the things of God, 1. Cor. 2.14. now hears as the learned: he sees in a mirror: he looks and wonders. The veil is taken away, that before covered him, 2. Cor. 3. Secondly, by the ⟨p. 543⟩transcendency of the things he knows: he can now look upon the very Sun: he knows God, and Jesus Christ, and the glory to come, and the excellent things given of God, which the heart of the natural man never perceived, John 17.3. 1. Cor. 2.9, 10. Thirdly, by the instrument by which he understands, he sees by faith and not by Reason in many things: he is fully assured in divers Mysteries, where sense and reason can give-in no evidence.
First, hee hath a new minde, hee is renewed in the spirit of his minde:4 which appeares, first, by his capablenes in spirituall things: Hee that lately could not perceiue the things of God, 1. Cor. 2.14. now heares as the learned: hee sees in a mirour: hee lookes and wonders. The vaile is taken away, that before couered him, 2. Cor. 3. Secondly, by the ⟨p. 543⟩transcendencie of the things hee knowes: he can now looke vpon the verie Sun: hee knowes God, and Iesus Christ, and the glory to come, and the excellent things giuen of God, which the heart of the natural man neuer perceiued, Iohn 17.3