A17384:537
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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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⟩and so in many other places.
1Christ is said to be a stone, three ways. First, For he is either a rock or stone for refuge, because in Christ, men may safely rest against all the surges, and waves of affliction in the sea of this world,