A17384:970
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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First, in that the Apostle doth not rest satisfied to allege the Text, but doth withal apply it, it shows the necessity of application. We cannot profit by the Word, if it be not laid particularly to our hearts: as food doth not nourish, if it be not eaten; nor a medicine cure the distaste, if it be not taken; nor a plaster heal the sore, if it be not laid to it; nor are our wants supplied by coming to the market, if we do not buy and carry ⟨p. 217⟩home. Which should work in us a sound care of application of the Word we hear or read: and withal it should waken us to a care of observing all the rules that may further us in applying; which are these, and such like.
First, in that the Apostle doth not rest satisfied to alleage the Text, but doth withall apply it, it shewes the necessity of application. We cannot profit by the Word, if it be not laid particularly to our hearts: as food doth not nourish, if it bee not eaten; nor a medicine cure the distaste, if it be not taken; nor a plaister heal the sore, if it bee not laid to it; nor are our wants supplied by coming to the market, if we doo not buy and carry ⟨p. 217⟩home. Which should work in vs a sound care of application of the Word wee hear or read: and withall it should waken vs to a care of obseruing all the rules that may further vs in applying; which are these, and such like.