A17384:536
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.
Secondly, The second thing affirmed of Christ, is, that he is said to be a living stone.
Secondly, The second thing affirm'd of Christ, is, that he is said to be a liuing stone.
A living stone.]
A liuing stone.]
A stone, and a living stone. The holy Ghost is used in Scripture to liken God and Christ unto a stone: so Gen. 49.24. God is said to be the shepherd and stone of Israel, and Revel. 4.3. God is likened to a Jasper stone, and Psal. 118.22. Christ is said to be the stone, which the builders refused: ⟨p. 120⟩and so in many other places.
A stone, and a liuing stone. The holy Ghost is vsed in Scripture to liken God and Christ vnto a stone: so Gen. 49.24. God is said to be the shepherd and stone of Israel, and Reuel. 4.3. God is likened to a Iasper stone, and Psal. 118.22. Christ is said to be the stone, which the builders refused: ⟨p. 120⟩