A17384:640
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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We must come to Christ.
Wee must come to Christ.
First, speedily: as, the men that suffer shipwreck, quickly haste to the shore.
First, speedily: as, the men that suffer shipwrack, quickly haste to the shore.
Secondly,1 penitently: going and weeping we must go, Jerem. 50.4. He calls to him sinners, and that to repentance, Math. 9.13. we must come weary and heavy loaden, Math. 11.28. we must return and come, Isaiah 25.12. and not, as they Jer. 7.9, 10. Zachar. 14.1, &c. that came in their sins with Idols in their heart: We should come to Christ, as Benhadad did to Ahab, with ropes about our necks: that is, with all readiness to profess against our selves our own vile deserts.
Secondly,1 penitently: going and weeping we must goe, Ierem. 50.4. Hee cals to him sinners, and that to repentance,