A17384:2498
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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But that this point may be more clear, I will set down a Catalogue of inventions of men used for religious ends, and uses without any commandment of God, and that both before the Law, and under the Law, and under the Gospel.
But that this point may bee more cleer, I will set downe a Catalogue of inuentions of men vsed for religious endes, and vses without any commandement of God, and that both before the Law, and vnder the Law, and vnder the Gospell.
First, before the Law we read of these things:
First, before the Law wee read of these things:
The laying of the hand under the thigh in swearing, Genesis 24, &c.
The laying of the hand vnder the thigh in swearing, Genesis 24, &c.