A17384:741
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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Use 2. Secondly, for consolation to all godly, and mortified, and inoffensive Christians: they should be wonderful thankful to God, that hath made them partners of this holy Calling, howsoever the world conceives of it. God promiseth it as a great mercy to his children, that they shall be called the Priests of the Lord, Isaiah 61.6. and the Church is wonderful thankful for it to God, Reu. 2.6. and 5.10. And the rather should we rejoice in it, because God hath promised to take us to himself, as his portion and peculiar treasure, Exod. 19.6. And it is his promise also to satiate the souls of his Priests with fatness, Jerem. 31.14. And what a privilege is it to have access unto the Lord, and to stand before God daily? which the Priests not only might, but were tied to it by their office. But then, for conclusion of this point, let us all be sure we have our part in the first resurrection, Reu. 20.6. and be careful to be like the Priests for obedience and sanctity, Exod. 19.5, 6. and to get knowledge plentifully into our hearts, Col. 3.16. and in the cause of God to blow the trumpets of zeal and resolution, carrying our ⟨p. 158⟩[…] ⟨p. 159⟩[…] ⟨p. 160⟩selves with all humility and readiness to do good, and so becoming instruments of blessing to the people. And, which I had almost forgotten, we must remember to be like the Priests for teaching, and confuting, and reproving, and informing our Familiars and friends, as we have fitness and occasion.
Vse 2. Secondly, for consolation to all godly, and mortified, and inoffensiue Christians: they should be wonderful thankfull to God, that hath made them partners of this holy Calling, howsoeuer the world conceiues of it. God promiseth it as a great mercy to his children, that they shall be called the Priests of the Lord, Esay 61.6. and the Church is wonderful thankful for it to God,