A17384:768
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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Sixthly, The sacrifices must be salted with salt: so must our Christian sacrifices, as our Saviour Christ shows, Mark 9.49, 50. And thus we must have the salt of mortification, and the salt of discretion, ⟨p. 167⟩and we must look to it, that our salt lose not his saltness, but that it have a draining power in it, to extract corruption out of our sacrifices: our words to God and men must be powdered with salt, Col. 4.6. and so must all our actions.
Sixtly, The sacrifices must be salted with salt: so must our Christian sacrifices, as our Sauiour Christ shewes, Marke 9.49, 50. And thus we must haue the salt of mortification, and the salt of discretion, ⟨p. 167⟩and we must looke to it, that our salt lose not his saltnes, but that it haue a draining power in it, to extract corruption out of our sacrifices: our words to God and men must bee powdred with salt, Col. 4.6. and so must all our actions.
Seventhly, the sacrifices must be without leaven, Levit. 2.11. Leaven is wickedness, or malice, or sourness, or deadness of heart, or worldly grief: even whatsoever leaveneth, that is, infecteth or maketh the meat offering to be heavy, or sour, 1 Cor. 5.8.