A17384:2934
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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Fourthly, they must needs be brethren, they are so like one another: they are all fashioned in the image of God, and are all like the Father.
Fourthly, they must needs bee brethren, they are so like one another: they are all fashioned in the image of God, and are all like the Father.
Use 1. The use should be, first, for instruction; and so to teach Christians to take heed of judging and censuring one another, Rom. 14.10. of offending and grieving one another, Rom. 14.13, 21. of contentions and schism one from another, 1▪ Cor. 1.10. of going to law one with another, 1. Cor. 6.1, 2, &c. to verse 8. of cozening and defrauding one another, 1. Thes. 4.6. of accepting of persons, to prefer a rich man before a poor believer, James 2.1, 2. of detracting one from another, or grudging or complaining one of another, James 4.11. so also, Mat. 23.8. of all dissimulation and guileful courses, Rom. 12.9.
Vse 1. The vse should bee, first, for instruction; and so to teach Christians to take heed of iudging and censuring one another, Rom. 14.10. of offending and grieuing one another,