A17384:2839
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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Lastly, our Christian liberty may be a great comfort to our hearts, if we consider seriously the great miseries we are freed from, and the great privileges we are freed to; and the rather, because our freedom proceeds from the tender mercy of God, Luke 1.78. and was purchased at a dear rate by Christ, 1. Pet. 1.18. and the Patent of it is sealed by the holy Ghost, Eph. 1.13. and also because it is granted to none, but the sons of God.
Lastly, our Christian liberty may bee a great comfort to our hearts, if we consider seriously the great miseries wee are freed from, and the great priuiledges we are freed to; and the rather, because our freedome proceedes from the tender mercy of God, Luke 1.78. and was purchased at a deare rate by Christ, 1. Pet. 1.18. and the Patent of it is sealed by the holy Ghost, Eph. 1.13. and also because it is graunted to none, but the sonnes of God.
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These words restrain the grant of our liberty, and show, that though we be made truly free by God, yet in divers respects we are but as free, rather like freemen, then so indeed: and so we are but as free,
These words restraine the grant of our liberty, and shew, that though we bee made truly free by God, yet in diuers respects wee are but as free, rather like freemen, then so indeed: and so we are but as free,