A17384:972
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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Ob. But some private man might say, This is hard: how can we learn to know the clear meaning of the Scripture, and the sense of the Text?
Ob. But some priuate man might say, This is hard: how can we learn to knowe the cleer meaning of the Scripture, and the sense of the Text?
Sol. For answer hereunto: thou must know, that there be divers rules that may help thee to understand, or at least, keep thee from wrong and dangerous mis-application.
Sol. For answer heerunto: thou must knowe, that there bee diuers rules that may help thee to vnderstand, or at least, keep thee from wrong and dangerous mis-application.
First, thou must be wise to sobriety, and not presume to know above what is meet, nor to meddle with such Secrets as should lead thee into knowledges that belong not to thy calling, or are not evidently revealed in Scripture.
First, thou must be wise to sobriety, and not presume to knowe aboue what is meet, nor to meddle with such Secrets as should lead thee into knowledges that belong not to thy calling, or are not euidently reuealed in Scripture.