A17384:728
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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Secondly, as the Priests were washed in the great laver of water, Exod. 29.4. Levit. 8.5.6. so must Christians be washed in the laver of Regeneration, Eph. 5.23. Titus 3.5.
Secondly, as the Priests were washed in the great lauer of water, Exod. 29.4. Leuit. 8.5.6. so must Christians be washed in the lauer of Regeneration, Eph. 5.23. Titus 3.5.
Thirdly, as the Priests had their holy garments, beautiful, and goodly ones, which they called their Ephods: so doth the Queen the Church stand at Christs right hand in a Vesture of Ophir, Psalm 45. Thus Joshua hath change of garments mystically given him, Zach. 3.4. Those garments are promised to such as have had a spirit of heaviness, Isaiah 61.3. called garments of salvation, verse 10. and royal garments, and like the new wedding garments of the Bride, Isaiah 62.5.7. ⟨p. 156⟩Those garments signified either the singular glory, and joy of Christians, Isaiah 61.3. or the righteousness of Christ imputed,