A17384:730
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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1Fourthly, The Priest must have blood sprinkled upon his ear, and upon his thumb, and upon his toe, to signify, that our hearing, practice, and progress must be all sanctified to us by Christ, and that the main thing Christians should express and attend to, should be Christ crucified, and that Christ by his blood hath consecrated them in all these respects, so as their hearing, and practice, and progress shall all be blessed unto them.
1Fourthly, The Priest must haue blood sprinkled vpon his eare, and vpon his thombe, and vpon his toe, to signify, that our hearing, practice, and progresse must bee all sanctified to vs by Christ, and that the maine thing Christians should expresse and attend to, should be Christ crucified, and that Christ by his blood hath consecrated them in all these respects, so as their hearing, and practice, and progresse shall all bee blessed vnto them.
And thus of the ceremonies of their consecration.
Fourthly, We should be like the Levitical Priests for knowledge: the Priests lips should preserve knowledge, and they should seek the Law at his mouth, Malac. 2. And it is true of Christians, that they are a people, in whose heart is Gods law, Isaiah. 57.7.