A17384:853
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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Fourthly, it may be, by this term the mystery of the birth and conception of Christ is intimated. God digged the ground of our natures in the womb of Christ, that he might lay Christ there, &c.
Fourthly, it may be, by this tearm the mystery of the birth and conception of Christ is intimated. God digged the ground of our natures in the womb of Christ, that hee might lay Christ there, &c.
Fifthly, so it may likewise import the sanctification of the humane nature of Christ; who was qualified, as the stone is squared when it is laid down.
Fiftly, so it may likewise import the sanctification of the humane nature of Christ; who was qualified, as the stone is squared when it is laied down.
Thus of the manner. The place follows.
In Zion.]
In Sion.]