A17384:750
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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Ministers have another sacrifice too, viz. the particular texts or portions of Scripture, which they choose out and divide to the people, as consecrated for their use. For, divers think, that that phrase of cutting the Word of God aright, is borrowed from the Priests manner of dividing the sacrifices; and especially, from the Priests manner of cutting the little birds. The little birds, is his text chosen out of the rest, and separated for a sacrifice: which he must so divide, as that the wings be not cut asunder from the body, that is, he must so divide his text, that no part be separate from a meet respect of the whole, Leu. 1.17. and 5.8. 2. Tim. 1.15.
Ministers haue another sacrifice too, viz. the particular texts or portions of Scripture, which they chuse out and diuide to the people, as consecrated for their vse. For, diuers think, that that phrase of cutting the Word of God aright, is borrowed from the Priests manner of diuiding the sacrifices; and especially, from the Priests manner of cutting the little birds. The little birds, is his text chosen out of the rest, and separated for a sacrifice: which hee must so diuide, as that the wings bee not cut asunder from the body, that is, he must so diuide his text, that no part be separat from a meet respect of the whole, Leu. 1.17. and 5.8. 2. Tim. 1.15.
Secondly, the Martyrs likewise have their sacrifices; and that is, a drink-offering to the Lord, ⟨p. 163⟩even their own blood: this part is ready to be poured out as a drink offering to the Lord for the Church, Phi. 2.17.