A17384:3308
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, the effect of his sufferings; 1. In respect of us: and so his sufferings serve To kill our sins. Verse 24. To make us alive to righteousness. Verse 24. To heal our natures. Verse 24. 2. In respect of himself: and so they procured his exaltation, to be Shepherd and Bishop of our souls, verse 25.
Fiftly, the effect of his sufferings; 1. In respect of vs: and so his suffrings serue To kill our sinnes. Verse 24. To make vs aliue to righteousnes. Verse 24. To heal our natures. Verse 24. 2. In respect of himself: and so they procured his exaltation, to be Shepheard and Bishop of our soules, verse 25.
Thus of the order.
Even Christ suffered.]
Euen Christ suffred.]
The first thing to be considered in the Apostles description of the Passion of the person who suffered, is, that it is named here with special Emphasis, Even Christ, or Christ also. Christ is the sir-name of our Saviour, as Jesus was his proper name. Jesus is a name only given him in the new Testament: but Christ was his name in both Testaments, and signifies Anointed, being a Greek word, as Messiah doth in the Hebrew. And so it is a name importing his office of Mediator; as being thereby proclaimed to be the substance of the ceremonial types, even the supreme Doctor, or Prophet, Priest, and King of the Church: for, these three sorts of men were anointed in the old Testament, and were types of Christ's anointing.