A commentary

Name: A commentary
Author: Nicholas Byfield

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.

Nicholas Byfield 1579–1622London: printed by Humphrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623London: printed by Humfrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623

[16], 922, [6] p. · 245k words · STC 4211 · ESTC S107078

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AN EXPOSITION of the Second Chapter of the first Epistle general o… › Verse. 3. Because ye have tasted, that the Lord is gracious, or bou…: Verse. 3. Because ye have tasted, that the Lord is gracious, or bountiful.AN EXPOSITION of the Second Chapter of the first Epistle generall o… › Verse. 3. Because ye haue tasted, that the Lord is gracious, or bou…: Verse. 3. Because ye haue tasted, that the Lord is gracious, or bountifull.

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Sixthly, Too many Christians are poisoned with some of the sins mentioned in the first verse of this Chapter, & that destroys both taste and appetite in them.

Sixtly, Too many Christians are poisoned with some of the sinnes mentioned in the first verse of this Chapter, & that destroyes both taste and appetite in them.

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Seventhly, Some are fearfully delivered to a spiritual slumber, the Justice of God scourging their impenitency and disobedience, that made no use of his judgements, and the remorses they felt before; And so are in the case of the Jews, Rom. 11.

Seuenthly, Some are fearefully deliuered to a spirituall slumber, the Iustice of God scourging their impenitency and disobedience, that made no vse of his iudgements, and the remorses they felt before; And so are in the case of the Iewes, Rom. 11.

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Eighthly, Because God doth for the most part reserve these tastes, as the only portion of his ⟨p. 111⟩own people: and therefore never wonder, though the common multitude attain not to it, Psalm 36.8.9.

Eightthly, Because God doth for the most part reserue these tastes, as the onely portion of his ⟨p. 111⟩

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Verse 4. To whom coming, as to a living stone, disallowed of men, but chosen of God, and precious.

Verse 4. To whom coming, as to a liuing stone, disallowed of men, but chosen of God, and precious.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Verse 4. To whom coming, as to a living stone, disallowed of men, but chosen of God, and precious.

Verse 4. To whom coming, as to a liuing stone, disallowed of men, but chosen of God, and precious.

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