A17384:704
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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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, John 1.14. And thus Christ calleth his own body a Temple, John 2.21. Fifthly, the heart of man is the Tabernacle of Christ: and so both the whole Catholic Church is his Tabernacle, Eph. 2.21. or the public assembly of the Saints, Psalm 15.1. or else the heart of every particular ⟨p. 150⟩believer: and so the power of Christ did rest upon Paul, as in a Tabernacle, 2. Cor. 12.9. so are we said to be the Temple of God, 2. Cor. 6.17. I take it in the last sense here.
Christ hath a fiue-fould Tabernacle. For, first, in the Letter,1 the Tabernacle or Temple at Ierusalem was the House of God and Christ. Secondly, the whole world is but the Tent of Christ, who hath spred out the heauens like a curtain, &c. Thirdly, the heauen of the Blessed is the tabernacle of Christ,