A17384:756
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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Those sacrifices served but as rudiments to instruct men, how to lay hold upon Christ, and to carry him into the presence of God, and laying hands upon his head to plead their interest in his death, who was offered up, as a whole burnt sacrifice for their sins. We are Christs, and Christ is given unto us as our ransom: we must every day then lay hold upon him, and see him bleed to death for our sins, and be consumed in the fire of Gods wrath for our sins.
Those sacrifices serued but as rudiments to instruct men, how to lay hold vpon Christ, and to carry him into the presence of God, and laying hands vpon his head to plead their interest in his death, who was offered vp, as a whole burnt sacrifice for their sinnes. Wee are Christs, and Christ is giuen vnto vs as our ransome: wee must euery day then lay hold vpon him, and see him bleed to death for our sinnes, and bee consumed in the fire of Gods wrath for our sinnes.
Secondly, a broken and contrite heart is a sacrifice God will not despise, yea such hearts are the sacrifices God especially calls for from men: He ever loved them better, then all the outward sacrifices in the Law, Psal. 51.17. It is the heart God calls for:1 and yet not every heart, but a heart wounded with the knife of mortification, that is, cut, and bleedeth in it self with godly sorrow for sin, and is broken and contrite with the daily confession of sin: This is required of all Christians, and this very thing makes a great deal of difference between Christian and Christian.
Secondly, a broken and contrite heart is a sacrifice God will not despise, yea such hearts are the sacrifices God especially cals for from men: Hee euer loued them better, then all the outward sacrifices in the Law, Psal. 51.17. It is the heart God cals for:1