A17384:3400
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 uses follow: and so,
The vses follow: and so,
Uses. First, we see the difference between the two Adams: the first made sin, and infected all the world with it: The other made no sin, but redeemed all the world from it. The first Adam, as he had power not to sin, so he had power to sin: but the second Adam had not only a power not to sin, but also no power to sin; not only, as they say in Schooles, posse non peccare; but also non posse peccare.
Vses. First, wee see the difference betweene the two Adams: the first made sinne, and infected all the world with it: The other made no sinne, but redeemed all the world from it. The first Adam, as he had power not to sin, so he had power to sinne: but the second Adam had not onely a power not to sinne, but also no power to sinne; not onely, as they say in Schooles, posse non peccare; but also non posse peccare.
Secondly, we may hence see, in what a woeful damnity against goodness the world stands; when this most innocent Man, that never did any sin, that never offended God or man in all his life; when he, I say, comes into the world, how is he despised, and rejected of men! Who looked after him, unless it were for his miracles? Few honoured him for his holiness. How is the world set on wickedness, that it should account him without form or hand-somnes, that shone before God and Angels in such a spotless innocency? Oh what wit ⟨p. 814⟩had the rulers of this world, that condemned him as a malefactor, that had no spot in him from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, that never did man wrong, or sinned against God, Isaiah 49.7. and 53.2, 3, 4.