A17384:3380
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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The first thing affirmed of Christ, to show his innocency, is, that he did no sin. In the Original, it is expressed by a word of great force, which signifies to make, or frame, or fashion with art, or to make sin; and it may be rendered (as I conceive) ⟨p. 809⟩more fitly, He made no sin.
The first thing affirmed of Christ, to shewe his innocency, is, that he did no sinne. In the Originall, it is expressed by a word of great force, which signifies to make, or frame, or fashion with art, or to make sinne; and it may be rendred (as I conceiue) ⟨p. 809⟩more fitly, Hee made no sinne.
To make sin, being a phrase somewhat unusual, the sense is to be inquired into. Now, a man may be said to make sin many ways:
To make sinne, being a phrase somewhat vnusuall, the sense is to bee inquired into. Now, a man may be said to make sin many waies:
First,1 when a man invents and commits a sin never heard of before. Thus Onan made that sin of filthiness. Thus the Sodomites and Gentilish men and women made sins of lust. Thus drunkards make strange kinds of drinkings. Thus the fantastical monsters of our times make the sins of strange apparel. And thus the Papists make that horrible sin of murdering of Princes, and damnable equivocations. And thus swearers now make their monstrous oaths.