A17384:702
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 spiritual house.]
A spirituall house.]
This is the fourth thing required of Christians. They must be as a spiritual house unto Christ: they must be that to Christ, that was signified by the Tabernacle or the Temple. For, every Christian is the substance of that which was signified by the Tabernacle.
This is the fourth thing required of Christians. They must bee as a spirituall house vnto Christ: they must be that to Christ, that was signified by the Tabernacle or the Temple. For, euery Christian is the substance of that which was signified by the Tabernacle.
Christ hath a five-fold Tabernacle. For, first, in the Letter,1 the Tabernacle or Temple at Jerusalem was the House of God and Christ. Secondly, the whole world is but the Tent of Christ, who hath spread out the heavens like a curtain, &c. Thirdly, the heaven of the Blessed is the tabernacle of Christ,2 the place where God and Christ dwell with the Saints, Revel. 21.3. and 13.6. Fourthly, the body of Christ is a tabernacle for the Godhead, Col. 2.9. and so it is, that the Word is said to become flesh, and dwelt amongst us, viz. in his body, as in a Tabernacle,