A17384:3338
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, it should work in us a most hearty willingness to suffer any thing for Christ and the Gospel, that hath suffered such extreme things for us: it should not be grievous to us to forsake father, or mother, or wife, or children, or house, or lands, or our own lives for his sake, or for the Gospel, Mark 10.29.
Lastly, it should work in vs a most harty willingnesse to suffer any thing for Christ and the Gospel, that hath suffered such extreme things for vs: it should not bee grieuous to vs to forsake father, or mother, or wife, or children, or house, or lands, or our owne liues for his sake, or for the Gospel, Mark 10.29.
Thus of the second thing in the doctrine of the passion of Christ.
The third thing is the use of it, and that is, to be an example unto us, that we might walk in his steps.
The third thing is the vse of it, and that is, to bee an example vnto vs, that wee might walk in his steps.