A17384:3396
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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Doct. 3. Christ made no sin. This is the chief doctrine, and plain in the text: He was not only free from the first, and worst kinds of making of sin mentioned before, but he was free from all sin in all estates of his life, he knew no sin, he did none iniquity: He was that just One by an excellency.
Doct. 3. Christ made no sinne. This is the chief doctrine, and plaine in the text: Hee was not onely free from the first, and worst kinds of making of sinne mentioned before, but hee was free from all sinne in all estates of his life, he knew no sinne, he did none iniquity: He was that iust One by an excellencie.
Quest. But how came it to pass, that the man Jesus had no sin, seeing all other men bring sin with them into the world, and daily sin?
Quest. But how came it to passe, that the man Iesus had no sinne, seeing all other men bring sin with them into the world, and daily sinne?
Ans. He was sanctified from the womb, being conceived by the holy Ghost,1 which no other are: so as both original sin was stopped from flowing in upon him in his conception; and besides, he was qualified with perfect holiness from the womb: and therefore is called that holy thing borne of the Virgin, Luke 1.35.
Ans. Hee was sanctified from the wombe, being conceiued by the holy Ghost,1 which no other are: so as both originall sinne was stopped from flowing in vpon him in his cōception; and besides, hee was qualified with perfect holines from the wombe: and therefore is called that holy thing borne of the Virgin,