A17384:3515
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The original word signifies sometimes a staff, Mat. 26.47. sometimes a pair of stocks, Acts 16.24 sometimes a tree growing, Revel. 2.11. usually wood, 1. Corinthians 3.12. Here, a Gallows made of wood.
The originall word signifies somtimes a staffe, Mat. 26.47. sometimes a pair of stocks, Acts 16.24 sometimes a tree growing, Reuel. 2.11. vsually wood, 1. Corinthians 3.12. Heere, a Gallowes made of wood.
Christ bare our sins on the tree, because he did in a special manner suffer bitter extremities on the tree, which he suffered as our Surety, and for our sins, for,
Christ bare our sinnes on the tree, because hee did in a speciall manner suffer bitter extremities on the tree, which hee suffered as our Suretie, and for our sinnes, for,
1First, to die on a tree, was, by a special Law of God, made a curse, and so is every one that hangs on a tree,