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 4. To whom coming, as to a living stone, disallowed of men, b…: Verse 4. To whom coming, as to a living stone, disallowed of men, but chosen of God, an…AN EXPOSITION of the Second Chapter of the first Epistle generall o… › Verse 4. To whom coming, as to a liuing stone, disallowed of men, b…: Verse 4. To whom coming, as to a liuing stone, disallowed of men, but chosen of God, an…

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First, we may hence be informed, that Christ is God with the Father. For, the which the Prophet David, Psalm 34 (whence the words of the former verse are borrowed) Give to God, the Apostle applies here unto Christ: and the reason of the application may in the second place inform us, that God is gracious to men only by Jesus Christ. It is impossible ever to feel or taste of Gods graciousness, but in his Son. And, thirdly, we are here told, as it were, that Christ is God visible. God is made visible and sensible to men ⟨p. 117⟩by Jesus Christ: This is that mystery of godliness: God is manifested in the flesh.

First, we may hence be informed, that Christ is God with the Father. For, the which the Prophet Dauid, Psalme 34 (whence the words of the former verse are borrowed) Giue to God, the Apostle applies heer vnto Christ: and the reason of the application may in the second place inform vs, that God is gracious to men onely by Iesus Christ. It is impossible euer to feel or taste of Gods graciousnes, but in his Son. And, thirdly, we are heer told, as it were, that Christ is God visible. God is made visible and sensible to men ⟨p. 117⟩by Iesus Christ: This is that mystery of godlines: God is manifested in the flesh.

:522p. 117

Secondly, Is Christ our Lord and Master? then these things will follow: 1. That we must live and die unto Christ, Rom, 14.7, 8, 9. we are not our own men; we must live to him that died for us, 2. Cor. 5. ult. The love of Christ must constrain us, and all old things must be passed, and all things must become new unto us. If Christ be our Lord, where is his service? he must rule us, and rule over us. If we walk in the vanity of our minds, according to the deceivable lusts of our old conversation; we have not yet learned Christ, nor the truth that is in Jesus,

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