A17384:2823
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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Fifthly, from the Laws of Moses. The ceremonial and judicial Laws, which laws were a yoke that neither the Jews nor their fathers were ever able to bear, Acts. 15.10. The ceremonial laws were a very seal of our condemnation, a handwriting against us, wherein men many ways acknowledge their guiltiness: besides, they were extremely burdensome, in respect of the rules of them, and the strict observation required from them. Our deliverance from these laws, these places prove, Acts 15.1. Cor. 9.1, 19. 2. Cor. 3.17. Heb. 9.10. Colos. 2.17.
Fiftly, from the Lawes of Moses. The ceremoniall and iudiciall Lawes, which lawes were a yoke that neither the Iewes nor their fathers were euer able to beare, Acts. 15.10. The ceremoniall lawes were a very seale of our condemnation, a handwriting against vs, wherein men many waies acknowledge their guiltines: besides, they were extremely burthensome, in respect of the rules of them, and the strict obseruation required from them. Our deliuerance from these lawes, these places proue, Acts 15.1. Cor. 9.1, 19. 2. Cor. 3.17. Heb. 9.10. Colos. 2.17.