A17384:866
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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Uses. First, we should hence inform our selves concerning the excellency of the Church of God above all other Assemblies of men in the world. We should learn to think of the Assemblies of Christians, as the Zion of God: she is the Mountain of his holiness, the joy of the whole earth, Psal. 48.1, 2. the perfection of beauty, where God shines more than in all the world besides, Psal. 50.2. The Moon may be confounded, and the Sun ashamed, when the Lord is pleased to show himself to reign in Zion, and before ⟨p. 189⟩his Ancients gloriously, Isaiah 24.23. yea the Church of God is an eternal excellency, Isaiah 60.15. whereas all other glories will vanish. And besides, we should hence be informed concerning the necessity of obtaining salvation in the Church. For this text shows us, that Christ is no where laid but in Zion, and can no where be found, but in the true Church; In Zion only hath God placed salvation for Israel, his glory: Only the godly are Gods Israel: Only in Israel doth God glory, and only in Zion can Gods Israel find salvation, Isaiah 46. ult.
Vses. First, we should hence inform our selues concerning the excellency of the Church of God aboue all other Assemblies of men in the world. Wee should learn to think of the Assemblies of Christians, as the Sion of God: shee is the Mountain of his holinesse, the ioy of the whole earth, Psal. 48.1, 2. the perfection of beauty, where God shines more than in all the world besides, Psal. 50.2. The Moon may be confounded, and the Sunne ashamed, when the Lord is pleased to shew himself to raign in Sion, and before ⟨p. 189⟩his Ancients gloriously,