A17385:1852
A commentary upon the three first chapters of the first Epistle general of St.…A commentary upon the three first chapters of the first Epistle generall of St.…
A commentary upon the three first chapters of the first Epistle general of St. Peter Wherein are most judiciously and profitably handled such points of doctrine as naturally flow from the text. Together with a very useful application thereof: and many good rules for a godly life. By Nicholas Byfield preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex. To which is now newly added an alphabetical table, not formerly published.A commentary upon the three first chapters of the first Epistle generall of St. Peter VVherin are most judiciously and profitably handled such points of doctrine as naturally flow from the text. Together with a very usefull application thereof: and many good rules for a godly life. By Nicholas Byfield preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex. To which is now newly added an alphabeticall table, not formerly published.
London: printed by Miles Flesher and Robert Young, 1637
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.
1. The first: that our ransom was to be payed in blood, was foretold continually from the very fall by sacrifices in blood, and is proved by express Scriptures, Heb. 9.13, 14. Act. 20.28.
1. The first: that our ransome was to be payed in bloud, was foretold continually from the very fall by sacrifices in bloud, and is proved by expresse Scriptures, Heb. 9.13, 14. Act. 20.28.
2. For the second: The blood of Christ is diversly taken: sometimes sacramentally, and so the wine in the Sacrament is his blood, Mat. 26. sometimes mystically, and so the blood of the Martyrs is the blood of Christ, and so they are said to fulfil the rest of the passion of Christ: sometimes imputatively, and so the Saints have their robes made white in the blood of the Lamb, Revel. 7.14. but most an end properly for his natural blood, and so it is taken here. For no Saints nor blood of Martyrs can make atonement for our sins: But by his blood (He) synecdochically means all his passion, even all that he suffered of the malediction of the law, as the surety for our sins.
2. For the second: The bloud of Christ is diversly taken: sometimes sacramentally, and so the wine in the Sacrament is his bloud, Mat. 26. sometimes mystically, and so the bloud of the Martyrs is the bloud of Christ, and so they are said to fulfill the rest of the passion of Christ: sometimes imputatively, and so the Saints have their robes made white in the bloud of the Lambe,