A17384:667
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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Fourthly, Because we have been alive to sin, and it is a shame to express less life in the service of God, then we have done in the service of sin.
Fourthly, Because we haue beene aliue to sin, and it is a shame to expresse lesse life in the seruice of God, then wee haue done in the seruice of sinne.
Fifthly, Because we have lively means, we are fed with living bread, Joh. 6. and we live by the power of God, 2 Cor. 13 4. and we have the spirit of Christ in us, which is the fountain of life, and hath springs of joy in him, Rom. 8.9. Joh. 6. and the ⟨p. 144⟩Word of God is lively and mighty in operation, Heb 4.12. and Christ himself lives in us, Gal. 2.20.
Fiftly, Because we haue liuely meanes, we are fed with liuing bread, Ioh. 6. and wee liue by the power of God, 2 Cor. 13 4. and we haue the spirit of Christ in vs, which is the fountaine of life, and hath springs of ioy in him, Rom. 8.9. Ioh. 6. and the ⟨p. 144⟩Word of God is liuely and mightie in operation, Heb 4.12. and Christ himselfe liues in vs,