A17384:2805
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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Christian liberty is one of the great gifts or endowments bestowed upon the Church by Christ. It is not amiss to reckon up all the gifts in order, that the relation which this gift hath to the rest, may appear. The gifts then, that Christ hath bestowed upon Christians, are these:
Christian liberty is one of the great gifts or endowments bestowed vpon the Church by Christ. It is not amisse to reckon vp all the gifts in order, that the relation which this gift hath to the rest, may appear. The gifts then, that Christ hath bestowed vpon Christians, are these:
Secondly, their vocation by the Gospel, calling them out of the world, into the Church.
Secondly, their vocation by the Gospell, calling them out of the world, into the Church.