A17384:849
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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There are many things imported under this similitude, that Christ is laid, as the Mason lays the chief corner stone in the earth. For it imports,
There are many things imported vnder this similitude, that Christ is laid, as the Mason laies the chief corner stone in the earth. For it imports,
First, The divine nature of Christ, that he was before he was incarnate,1 as the corner-stone was, before it was laid for a foundation. Christ descended from heaven, Eph. 4.7, 9.
First, The diuine nature of Christ, that he was before he was incarnate,1 as the corner-stone was, before it was laid for a foundation. Christ descended from heauen, Eph. 4.7, 9.
- 1That Christ is laid as a foundation-stone, imparts many things.
Secondly, The unchangeableness of Gods ordinances concerning the giving of Christ. He hath laid him as a foundation, that he would not have taken up again.
Secondly, The vnchangeablenes of Gods ordinances concerning the giuing of Christ. Hee hath laid him as a foundation, that hee would not haue taken vp againe.