A17384:3330
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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Secondly, he suffered, as to make satisfaction for our sins, so, together with that satisfaction, to remove from us the many miseries might have fallen upon us for our sins. Thus he was judged and condemned at the bar of Pilate, that we might be acquitted at the bar of God: He endured ⟨p. 797⟩all sorts of pains and torments in soul and body, that we might be delivered from eternal torments in hell: He died, that he might deliver us from death and the fear of it, and from him, which had the power of death, which is the devil, Rom. 6.10. Heb. 2.13. He was crucified, that he might abolish the power of sin in us, Rom. 6.10.
Secondly, hee suffered, as to make satisfaction for our sinnes, so, together with that satisfaction, to remoue from vs the many miseries might haue falne vpon vs for our sinnes. Thus hee was iudged and condemned at the barre of Pilate, that we might bee acquitted at the barre of God: Hee endured ⟨p. 797⟩all sorts of paines and torments in soule and body, that wee might bee deliuered from eternall torments in hell: Hee died, that hee might deliuer vs from death and the feare of it, and from him, which had the power of death, which is the diuel, Rom. 6.10. Heb. 2.13. Hee was crucified, that hee might abolish the power of sinne in vs, Rom. 6.10.
Thirdly, He suffered for us, that so by his sufferings He might merit the supply of our wants, and the possession of happiness: He suffered, to make us blessed. Thus he died, to ratify the eternal counsel,