A17384:856
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In Zion.]
In Sion.]
Zion, for certain, was a Fort of the Jebusites, built on a hill close to Jerusalem; which was taken by David, and called the City of David, 2. Sam. 5, 7; the Temple being afterwards built here. The Church of the Jews was called Zion, because here they assembled: and so afterwards it was the title given to the Church of God, both of Jews and Gentiles, that agree in one faith and true Religion, Zach. 10.11. And in especial, by Zion is meant the place of the assembly of the Saints, the Sanctuary. In the twelfth to the Hebrews, verse 22. it is thought to signify the saints in heaven, even the Congregation of the first-born. In this place it must needs mean the Christian Church; in which, GOD built the new world, laying the foundation in Christ incarnate, which began in Jerusalem, even at Zion in the Letter.
Sion, for certain, was a Fort of the Iebusites, built on a hill close to Ierusalem; which was taken by Dauid, and called the City of Dauid, 2. Sam. 5, 7; the Temple being afterwards built heer. The Church of the Iewes was cald Sion, because heer they assembled: and so afterwards it was the title giuen to the Church of God, both of Iewes and Gentiles, that agree in one faith and true Religion, Zach. 10.11. And in especiall, by Sion is meant the place of the assembly of the Saints, the Sanctuary. In the twelfth to the Hebrews, verse 22. it is thought to signifie the saints in heauen, euen the Congregation of the first-born. In this place it must needs mean the Christian Church; in which, GOD built the new world, laying the foundation in Christ incarnate, which began in Ierusalem, euen at Sion in the Letter.