A17384:3357
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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It remains, that we consider more specially of the copy or example here left us to follow. God teacheth us many things by examples: and to that end, he hath given us divers sorts of examples to learn by.
It remaines, that we consider more specially of the copy or example heer left vs to follow. God teacheth vs many things by examples: and to that end, hee hath giuen vs diuers sorts of examples to learne by.
And so God is pleased to raise up in the world examples, sometimes of his Power; sometimes, of ⟨p. 804⟩his Justice; sometimes, of his Holiness. Examples or monuments of God's Power, are those strange works of wonder, which God doth at some times, to show his Almightiness and Sovereignty: such was that, John 9.1. To make a man, blind from the birth, to see. Examples of his Justice he hath given us in all Ages: so, Numb. 5.21. Ezech. 5.15. Heb. 4.11. Jude 7. 1. Cor. 10. Examples and patterns of his Holiness he hath given us, partly in his adopted sons, and partly in his natural Son, and his Son by the grace of personal union: thus he gave us Job and the Prophets for examples of patience in suffering, James 5.10. Thus Timothy and Titus are charged to be patterns of good works, 1. Timothy 4.12.