A17384:3668
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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Now follows the third form of speech;
By whose stripes we are healed.]
The healing of our sicknesses, is reckoned as another fruit of the Passion of Christ; or else it is the same with the former, expressed in other words. These words then are borrowed from the Prophet Isaiah, chap. 53.5. who doth chiefly understand the spiritual healing of our souls, of our sins, as the coherence shows in the Prophet: but yet the Evangelist saith, Mat. 8.17. and understands of the healing of our bodies also. And therefore I consider of the death of Christ, both in respect of soul and body.
The healing of our sicknesses, is reckoned as another fruit of the Passion of Christ; or else it is the same with the former, exprest in other words. These words then are borrow'd from the Prophet Esay, chap. 53.5. who doth chiefly vnderstand the spirituall healing of our soules, of our sinnes, as the coherence shewes in the Prophet: but yet the Euangelist saith, Mat. 8.17. and vnderstands of the healing of our bodies also. And therefore I consider of the death of Christ, both in respect of soule and body.