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

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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, Psal. 18. Secondly, Or else he is a stone of stumbling, as the Prophet Isaiah called him long since, Chap. 8.14. and the Apostle Paul acknowledgeth the same. Rom. 9.33. and this Apostle in verse. 6. following, Because wicked men take occasion from this doctrine of Christ to fall into sin, & mischief, & because if Christ may not be the means of their salvation, he will be an occasion of their falling: but in neither of these senses is it taken here. Thirdly, But Christ is here likened to a foundation stone, to signify, that it is he, upon whom all the Church must be built. This is that stone, which was cut out of the mountain without hands, Dan. 2.45. that hard stone of which the Prophet Zachery speaks. Chap. 4.7, 10.

¹Christ is said to bee a stone, three waies. First, For he is either a rock or stone for refuge, because in Christ, men may safely rest against all the surges, and waues of affliction in the sea of this world, Psal. 18. Secondly, Or else hee is a stone of stumbling, as the Prophet Esaiah called him long since, Chap. 8.14. and the Apostle Paul acknowledgeth the same. Rom. 9.33. and this Apostle in verse. 6. following, Because wicked men take occasion from this doctrine of Christ to fall into sinne, & mischief, & because if Christ may not be the meanes of their saluatiton, he will be an occasion of their falling: but in neither of these sences is it taken heer. Thirdly, But Christ is heere likened to a foundation stone, to signify, that it is he, vpon whom all the Church must be built. This is that stone, which was cut out of the mountain without hāds, Dan. 2.45. that hard stone of which the Prophet Zachery speaks. Chap. 4.7, 10.

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