A17384:2817
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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It is the liberty of grace is here meant: and that this part of the Christian happiness may the better appear, I will consider, First, what he is freed from; and secondly, what he is freed to.
It is the liberty of grace is heere meant: and that this part of the Christian happines may the better appeare, I will consider, First, what hee is freed from; and secondly, what hee is freed to.
For the first, there are divers things he is freed from: as,
For the first, there are diuers things hee is freed from: as,
First,1 from the rigour of the moral Law: he is delivered from the most rigid & severe execution of absolute & perfect obedience; so as being now under grace, he is not bound to fulfil the law perfectly, but may be accepted of God, if he obey it in the uprightness and sincerity of his heart, though he have many frailties and infirmities. God hath now tempered that rigour of exaction, which he justly stood upon in his first agreement with man in Paradise, and did with terror again proclaim in giving his Law in Sinai: so as now in Christ, our yoke is easy, and our burden light, Math. 11.29. Rom. 6.14. Christ our surety hath fulfilled that [Greek or Hebrew], or exact righteousness of the Law for us, Rom. 8.3.