A17384:993
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
The Godly are comforted in these words:
To you therefore which believe, he is precious.]
To you therefore which beleeue, he is precious.]
In which words, it is the drift of the Apostle to raise a use for consolation out of the former Text: whence consider,
In which words, it is the drift of the Apostle to raise a vse for consolation out of the former Text: whence consider,
First, the persons comforted, viz. you that believe.
First, the persons comforted, viz. you that beleeue.
Secondly, the happiness applied unto them, He is precious.