A17384:810
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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Secondly, this word imports the excellency ⟨p. 176⟩of the Bible above all other books, because it is called Scripture: as if no other writings were worthy to be mentioned in comparison of these. The Scripture exceeds all others in divers respects.
Secondly, this word imports the excellency ⟨p. 176⟩of the Bible aboue all other bookes, because it is called Scripture: as if no other writings were worthy to be mentioned in comparison of these. The Scripture exceedes all others in diuers respects.
1First, because these writings were inspired all of the holy Ghost, 2. Tim. 3.17. 2. Pet. 1.21. so were no other writings.
- 1Wherein the Scriptures exceeds all other writings.Wherein the Scriptures exceedes all other writings.
Secondly, those writings contain a wisdom far above all that, that can be had by the Princes and men of this world, the platform of the wisdom that is in God himself, 1. Cor. 6.7.