A17384:2526
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
There be five things,1 are thought each, of them to make the inventions of men very inconvenient and burdensome, and so not to be used: as, First, If there be no necessary use of them. Secondly, if they swerve from some pattern may be had in such things in Scripture. Thirdly, If they be things have been, or are abused to superstition. Fourthly, if they have signification put upon them by men. Fifthly, if they be scandalous in the use of them.
There bee fiue things,1 are thought each, of them to make the inuentions of men very inconuenient and burthensome, and so not to be vsed: as, First, If there bee no necessary vse of them. Secondly, if they swarue from some paterne may bee had in such things in Scripture. Thirdly, If they bee things haue beene, or are abused to superstition. Fourthly, if they haue signification put vpon them by men. Fiftly, if they bee scandalous in the vse of them.
- 1Pretended inconveniences by humane Laws suruaied.Pretended inconueniences by humane Lawes suruaied.
For the first: It is manifest, that there was no necessary use of the Jewish ceremonies: For now ⟨p. 592⟩the substance and body was come, there was no need of those shadows, and yet they were used by the Apostles.
For the first: It is manifest, that there was no necessary vse of the Iewish ceremonies: For now ⟨p. 592⟩the substance and body was come, there was no need of those shadowes, and yet they were vsed by the Apostles.