A17384:3369
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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Ninthly, he left us a pattern of mercy; who made himself poor, to make us rich: and therefore how much more should we, out of our abundance, yield some supply to others wants? 2. Cor. 8, &c.
Ninthly, hee left vs a patterne of mercy; who made himself poor, to make vs rich: and therefore how much more should we, out of our abundance, yeeld some supply to others wants? 2. Cor. 8, &c.
Lastly, the mortification and crucifying of the old man, is to be learned from the Passion of Christ, Rom. 6. For, look how Christ was used, so should we use our sins: he was crucified; and so should we crucify our sins, piercing the heart of them by confession and godly sorrow, and so hanging them up upon the Cross, till they be dead.
Lastly, the mortification and crucifying of the ould man, is to bee learned from the Passion of Christ, Rom. 6. For, look how Christ was vsed, so should we vse our sinnes: he was crucified; and so should we crucifie our sinnes, piercing the heart of them by confession and godly sorrow, and so hanging them vp vpon the Crosse, till they be dead.
Thus we see, that Christ hath set us a large copy, and that many things are to be learned from his example.
Thus we see, that Christ hath set vs a large copy, and that many things are to bee learned from his example.