A17384:3574
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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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.
Secondly, in respect of the hatefulnes of it, or the demonstration of the hatefulnes of it: The passion of Christ giues all men occasion to see, how vnworthy sin is to liue, that made him die, when it was onely imputed to him, and not done by him.
Thirdly, in respect of the power of it in us actually. There is a secret virtue in the wounds of Christ to wound sin, and in the death of Christ to kill sin: and therefore the Scripture speaks not only of the merit, but of the virtue of his death, Rom. 6. Phil. 3. which virtue is secretly derived unto the penitent sinner, by the ordinances of Christ, his Word, Prayer, and Sacraments.
Thirdly, in respect of the power of it in vs actually. There is a secret vertue in the wounds of Christ to wound sin, and in the death of Christ to kill sinne: and therefore the Scripture speakes not onely of the merit, but of the vertue of his death, Rom. 6. Phil. 3. which vertue is secretly deriued vnto the penitent sinner, by the ordinances of Christ, his Word, Praier, and Sacraments.
Use. The use should be for trial: men may know whether as yet they have any part in the death of Christ, by inquiring whether they be dead in their sins. First, they have no interest in the merit of his death, that have not experience of the virtue of his death in killing their corruptions. Secondly, for instruction: When godly men find any corruption begin to be too strong for them, they must fly to Christ for this medicine; and then