A17384:3339
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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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.
Leaving us an example.]
Leauing vs an example.]
The end then of the sufferings of Christ, is to be an example to us to learn by. The word rendered an example, is a metaphor taken from Scriveners, or Painters, and signifies properly a copy or pattern, or portraiture of a thing exactly drawn out: we are then set to school to learn by example: ⟨p. 800⟩Christs sufferings are as a Writing-school, where the Copies are most exactly drawn.
The end then of the sufferings of Christ, is to be an example to vs to learne by. The word rendred an example, is a metaphor taken from Scriueners, or Painters, and signifies properly a copy or patterne, or portraiture of a thing exactly drawne out: wee are then set to schoole to learne by example: