A17384:2530
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 third. It is also manifest, that things that were abused to superstition and idolatry, had notwithstanding a lawful use when their abuse was removed from them.1 As for instance: The Jewish ceremonies, especially Circumcision, were notoriously abused by the perverse Jews, who held very corrupt opinions about them; and yet the Apostle Paul did not make any doubt to use them. Again, the meat sacrificed to idols, when it comes out of the idols temple, is pronounced to be clean, and not polluted, by the Apostle Paul. Be•ides, it is manifest, our Temples, Bells, Chalices, and such ⟨p. 594⟩like, have been abused by idolaters; and yet there is not any question made of the lawful use of them by Divines on either side.
For the third. It is also manifest, that things that were abused to superstition and idolatry, had notwithstanding a lawfull vse when their abuse was remoued from them.1 As for instance: The Iewish ceremonies, especially Circumcision, were notoriously abused by the peruerse Iewes, who held very corrupt opinions about them; and yet the Apostle Paul did not make any doubt to vse them. Again, the meat sacrificed to idols, when it comes out of the idols temple, is pronounced to be clean, and not polluted, by the Apostle Paul. Be•ides, it is manifest, our Temples, Bells, Chalices, and such ⟨p. 594⟩like, haue been abused by idolaters; and yet there is not any question made of the lawful vse of them by Diuines on either side.