A17384:3491
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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1For the circumstances: The first Adam sins in a garden. The second Adam suffers fearfully for sin in a garden: The second Adam suffers on a tree, and so bears the sin of the first Adam, eating the forbidden fruit of a tree. For the sorts of sin: Why was Christ betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, forsaken by all his Disciples, refused by the Priests & people, but because we had betrayed, denied, forsaken, and refused God in Paradise? And many of us are now guilty of the same, or the like sins in the course of our lives. He was charged to be a seducer, to satisfy for our being seduced: For our evil words, and sinful excuses, he was silent; because we and our first Parents have preferred the devil before God, therefore was a malefactor preferred before him. Why was he mocked, buffeted, and spit upon, but to bear the shame was due unto us for our filthiness, and vile conversation? Why drank he gall, but to pay for our sinful pleasures? Why suffered he reviling and scoffing, but to satisfy for our sinful words? Many other things might be observed.
1For the circumstances: The first Adam sinnes in a garden. The second Adam suffers fearefully for sinne in a garden: The second Adam suffers on a tree, and so beares the sin of the first Adam, eating the forbidden fruit of a tree. For the sorts of sin: Why was Christ betrayed by Iudas, denied by Peter, forsaken by all his Disciples, refused by the Priests & people, but because we had betraied, denied, forsaken, and refused God in Paradise? And many of vs are now guilty of the same, or the like sinnes in the course of our liues. Hee was charged to bee a seducer, to satisfy for our being seduced: For our euill words, and sinfull excuses, hee was silent; because wee and our first Parents haue preferred the diuell before God, therefore was a malefactor preferred before him. Why was hee mocked, buffeted, and spit vpon, but to beare the shame was due vnto vs for our filthines, and vile conuersation? Why drank hee gall, but to pay for our sinfull pleasures? Why suffered he reuiling and scoffing, but to satisfy for our sinfull words? Many other things might bee obserued.
- 1Christs sufferings fitted to the circumstances of sin.Christs sufferings fitted to the circumstances of sinne.