A17384:416
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First, That God is gracious.
Secondly, that God doth graciously sweeten the word to his people: as God doth show his graciousness in the word.
Secondly, that God doth graciously sweeten the word to his people: as God doth shew his graciousnes in the word.
Thirdly, that, where there is a true taste of the sweetness of the word, there the soul grows in grace.
Thirdly, that, where there is a true taste of the sweetnes of the word, there the soule growes in grace.
Fourthly, It is but a taste of the sweetness of God which can be had in this life.
Fourthly, It is but a taste of the sweetnes of God which can be had in this life.