A17384:3490
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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Christ may be said to bear our sins in two respects chiefly.1 First, because he did undergo the imputation of all our sins; our faults were charged upon him, as our surety: He was made sin for us, 2 Cor. 5.21. He stood before God's Justice in our room. Secondly, because he suffered the malediction due to our sins by the Law: He bare our sins, in being made a sacrifice for sin: He became indebted unto the Justice of God, as our surety, to bear the curses of the Law, which our sins deserved, Isaiah. 53.5, 8. Gal. 3.10. And as this is true in general of all the wrath of God, and the fearful things due to our sins: so if we mark the story of Christs sufferings, we may observe, how the sins of our first parents, and our own, light heavily upon his back, God suffering our sins to be charged upon him in a special fi•nes of the judgement to our sins: and that we may note, both in the circumstances of our ⟨p. 832⟩sinning, and in the sorts of sins.
Christ may bee said to beare our sinnes in two respects chiefely.1 First, because hee did vndergoe the imputation of all our sinnes; our faults were charged vpon him, as our surety: Hee was made sinne for vs, 2 Cor. 5.21. Hee stood before God's Iustice in our roome. Secondly, because hee suffered the malediction due to our sinnes by the Law: Hee bare our sinnes, in being made a sacrifice for sinne: Hee became indebted vnto the Iustice of God, as our surety, to beare the curses of the Law, which our sinnes deserued, Esay. 53.5, 8. Gal. 3.10. And as this is true in generall of all the wrath of God, and the fearefull things due to our sinnes: so if wee mark the story of Christs sufferings, we may obserue, how the sinnes of our first parents, and our owne, light heauily vpon his back, God suffering our sinnes to bee charged vpon him in a speciall fines of the iudgement to our sinnes: and that wee may note, both in the circumstances of our