A17384:733
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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Fifthly, We should be like the Priests in respect of the work they did. For,
Fiftly, We should be like the Priests in respect of the work they did. For,
First, It was the Priests office to carry about the Ark of the Lord, when it was removed, upon their shoulders. What is the Ark to be carried, but the doctrine of Christ and the Church? Christians must carry about the Word of God, and hold it forth, in the light, and life of it, as lights that shine in the dark places of the wilderness of this world, Philip. 2.15.
First, It was the Priests office to carry about the Arke of the Lord, when it was remoued, vpon their shoulders. What is the Arke to be carried, but the doctrine of Christ and the Church? Christians must carry about the Word of God, and hold it forth, in the light, and life of it, as lights that shine in the darke places of the wildernes of this world, Philip. 2.15.
Secondly, it was their office to blow in the silver trumpets, and that upon four occasions, as you may see, Num. 10. First, The one was to assemble the congregation, or the Princes to the tabernacle. Secondly, The other was to give an alarm, when there was any remove of the camp. Thirdly, The third was in the time of War, when they mustered to battle. Fourthly, The fourth was for joys sake at the time of solemn feasts, and for thanksgiving to God: and in all these we should be like the Priests: We should be as trumpets to call one upon another to go up to the house of the Lord,