A17384:2825
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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Now all these uses are abolished by Christ: For our condemnation is taken away by Christ, and so the hand-writing is cancelled, Colos. 2.14. and the Gentiles and Jews are made all one people, Ephes. 2.14, 15. and Christ the substance and body is come, and therefore the shadows must vanish, Col. 2.17. and the heir is, as it were, now at age, & therefore needs not Tutors and Governors▪ Gal. 4.1, 2, 3.
Now all these vses are abolished by Christ: For our condemnation is taken away by Christ, and so the hand-writing is cancelled, Colos. 2.14. and the Gentiles and Iewes are made all one people, Ephes. 2.14, 15. and Christ the substance and body is come, and therefore the shadowes must vanish, Col. 2.17. and the heir is, as it were, now at age, & therefore needs not Tutors and Gouernors▪ Gal. 4.1, 2, 3.
As for the freedom of Christians from the Judicial Laws; that must be understood with a distinction: for so many of the Judicial Laws, as did agree with the common political law of Nature, are in force: only so much of the Judicial law, as did only concern the singular & particular policy of the Jews, is abolished. Where the reason of the Law is Universal, the Law binds all: where the respect and reason of the Law is fitted only to the condition of that people, there the law is abolished.