A17384:769
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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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.
Seuenthly, the sacrifices must be without leauen, Leuit. 2.11. Leauen is wickednes, or malice, or sowrenes, or deadnes of heart, or worldly griefe: euen whatsoeuer leaueneth, that is, infecteth or maketh the meate offring to be heauie, or sowre, 1 Cor. 5.8.
Eighthly, in the same place of Leviticus 2.11. Honey likewise is forbidden to be mingled with their sacrifices: and by honey may be meant, our beloved sins, or particular corruptions: we should especially watch against them in the time of performance of holy duties, that they mingle not themselves with our sacrifices, by infecting our cogitations.
Eightthly, in the same place of Leuiticus 2.11. Honie likewise is forbidden to be mingled with their sacrifices: and by hony may be meant, our beloued sinnes, or particular corruptions: wee should especially watch against them in the time of performance of holy duties, that they mingle not themselues with our sacrifices, by infecting our cogitations.