A17384:3572
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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Doct. 4. The Passion of Christ is the best medicine to kill sin in us: He died, that we might ⟨p. 850⟩die to sin: There is a virtue in the death of Christ to kill sin, Rom. 6. Now the death of Christ may be said to kill sin,
Doct. 4. The Passion of Christ is the best medicine to kill sinne in vs: He died, that wee might ⟨p. 850⟩die to sin: There is a vertue in the death of Christ to kill sinne, Rom. 6. Now the death of Christ may bee said to kill sinne,
First, in respect of the guilt of it: Christ in his death payed all that was needful for satisfaction, and so destroyed the imputation of it, and stilled the clamour of it: It cannot cry against us in heaven, because God is fully satisfied, and the bond discharged, and cancelled: the plea of our sins died in the passion of Christ.
First, in respect of the guilt of it: Christ in his death paied all that was needefull for satisfaction, and so destroyed the imputation of it, and stilled the clamour of it: It cannot cry against vs in heauen, because God is fully satisfied, and the bond discharged, and cancelled: the plea of our sinnes died in the passion of Christ.
Secondly, in respect of the hatefulness of it, or the demonstration of the hatefulness of it: The passion of Christ gives all men occasion to see, how unworthy sin is to live, that made him die, when it was only imputed to him, and not done by him.