A17384:3608
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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Thirdly, the personal and passionate love of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Fountain of righteousness, though he never saw him in the flesh, esteeming him above all persons and things, 1. Peter 1.9. Phil. 3.8, 9. longing after his coming, with great strivings of affections, 2. Cor. 5. 2. Tim. 4.8, &c.
Thirdly, the personall and passionate loue of the Lord Iesus Christ, the Fountain of righteousnes, though hee neuer saw him in the flesh, esteeming him aboue all persons and things, 1. Peter 1.9. Phil. 3.8, 9. longing after his comming, with great striuings of affections, 2. Cor. 5. 2. Tim. 4.8, &c.
Fourthly, flourishing like a Palm-tree, when he is planted in the House of the Lord, and enjoys ⟨p. 860⟩powerful means in the House of his God, growing like the Willows by the water-courses, Psalm 92.12, 13. and 1.3.
Fourthly, flourishing like a Palm-tree, when he is planted in the House of the Lord, and enioyes ⟨p. 860⟩