A17384:316
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
These words are taken in divers senses. For properly they signify infants, while they are tender and unweaned from the breast: Sometimes they signify unable men, and such as have no fitness for their callings: so Isai. 3.4. Sometimes they signify such as be weak in faith and in the gifts of the spirit, whether they be newly regenerated or lying in sin 1. Cor. 3.1. Heb. 5.13. and so it is taken here.
These words are taken in diuers senses. For properly they signify infants, while they are tender and vnweaned from the breast: Sometimes they signify vnable men, and such as haue no fitnes for their callings: so Isai. 3.4. Sometimes they signify such as be weake in faith and in the gifts of the spirit, whether they be newly regenerated or lying in sinne 1. Cor. 3.1. Heb. 5.13. and so it is taken heer.
And so the words are a reason to induce them to an affectionate desire after the word. Inasmuch as they are so weak, they can no better live without the word, then the child in nature can live without milk.
And so the words are a reason to induce them to an affectionate desire after the word. Inasmuch as they are so weak, they can no better liue without the word, then the child in nature can liue without milk.