A17384:3555
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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Thus of the doctrines implied in the Text. The doctrines that may be gathered more expressly, follow.
Thus of the doctrines implied in the Text. The doctrines that may bee gathered more expresly, follow.
Doct. 1. None but mortified Christians are true Christians. It is manifest, that none have part in Christ, but such as are dead to sin; such men only doth Christ acknowledge: for, he is a Redeemer to none but such as turn from transgression in Jacob, Isaiah 59.20. All that are in Christ, are new creatures: their old things are past, and all things new, 2. Cor. 5.17. None are Christ's, but such as ⟨p. 844⟩bear the similitude of his death in their dying to sin, Rom. 6. Men lose their Baptism, if they be not baptized into the death of Christ. Such men as place their happiness in worldly things, are not the right seed; but such only as are born by promise, that is, that received life by the promises of grace and a better life, Rom. 9.8. Christ was sent to preach glad tidings to such as mourn in Zion, Isaiah 61.1, 2, 3. The mourners in Jerusalem were the only men that were marked for God, Ezekiel 9. Christ will have no Disciples, but such as will deny themselves, Luke 9. and are not fashioned according to this world, Rom. 12.2. And this should teach men to have mortified Christians in greater honour, and to esteem highly of such as will not be corrupted with the excess of the times, and do show by a sound conversation, that they are weaned from the lust after earthly things, and are consecrated to God and his service. We should honour and acknowledge such above all other men in the world, yea, in the Church. It should also compel upon us a care of a mortified life, and a daily resisting of sin and the devil, and striving to be made like to Christ.