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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Fourthly, by contemplation, remembering him, and setting our affections on him, thinking on him that sits at the right hand of God, Col. 3.1.

Fourthly, by contemplation, remembring him, and setting our affections on him, thinking on him that sits at the right hand of God, Col. 3.1.

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Fifthly, by receiving his servants, and visiting them in their distresses: He that receiveth them, receiveth Christ, Math. 10. and to visit them in prison, is to come unto Christ, or to visit Christ, Matthew, 26.

Fiftly, by receiuing his seruants, and visiting them in their distresses: He that receiueth them, receiueth Christ, Math. 10. and to visit them in prison, is to come vnto Christ, or to visit Christ, Mathew, 26.

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But the four first ways are especially meant, and the first chiefly. For the second:

But the fourefirst waies are especially meant, and the first chiefely. For the second:

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