A17384:2802
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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In the first part, you must consider what he granteth, viz▪ that they are free. Secondly, how far he grants it, viz. that they are as free.
Free.]
Freedom is either civill or spiritual. Civill freedom is, when a servant is manumitted or made free, that was an apprentice or bond-slave before: and so when a stranger is admitted to the right of a City, or a Common-wealth, or the like. The spiritual freedom is that estate which Christians do enjoy by God's favour in Christ, after their calling. It is a spiritual manumission or freedom that is here meant: and this is called Christian liberty, partly because it is a freedom that we have only by Christ, and partly because it is a freedom now only enjoyed by Christians, and no other men in the world.
Freedome is either ciuill or spirituall. Ciuill freedom is, when a seruant is manumitted or made free, that was an apprentise or bond-slaue before: and so when a stranger is admitted to the right of a City, or a Common-wealth, or the like. The spirituall freedome is that estate which Christians do enioy by God's fauour in Christ, after their calling. It is a spirituall manumission or freedom that is heer meant: and this is called Christian liberty, partly because it is a freedome that we haue onely by Christ, and partly because it is a freedome now onely enioyed by Christians, and no other men in the world.