A17384:2715
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.
That you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.]
The word here rendered, To put to silence, is diversly accepted, or the force of it is showed by diverse terms in several Scriptures. Sometimes it is translated, to still a thing that is tumultuous and raging: and so the Sea was silenced or made still, Mark 4.39. Sometimes it is translated, To make speechless or dumb: so Math. 22.12. Sometimes, To confute, so as they have not a word to answer, so Mat. 22.34. Sometimes, To muzzle, or tie up the mouth: so 1. Cor. 9.9. 1. Tim. 5.18. and so it signifies properly: and so well-doing is intended here as a means to muzzle the mouths of wicked men.
The word heer rendred, To put to silence, is diuersly accepted, or the force of it is shewed by diuerse tearmes in seuerall Scriptures. Sometimes it is translated, to still a thing that is tumultuous and raging: and so the Sea was silenced or made still, Mark 4.39. Sometimes it is translated, To make speechlesse or dumb: so Math. 22.12. Sometimes, To confute, so as they haue not a word to answer, so Mat. 22.34. Sometimes, To muzzle, or tie vp the mouth: so 1. Cor. 9.9. 1. Tim. 5.18. and so it signifies properly: and so well-doing is intended heer as a means to muzzle the mouthes of wicked men.