A17385:339
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.
Before I come to the more particular, and full opening of these words, these things may be touched in the general.
Before I come to the more particular, and full opening of these words, these things may be touched in the generall.
1. There was blood in Christ, he took the true nature of his brethren, true flesh and blood, that he might serve and satisfy God in the same nature, that had offended.
1. There was blood in Christ, he tooke the true nature of his brethren, true flesh and blood, that he might serve and satisfie God in the same nature, that had offended.
2. This blood was shed. If you ask, who shed it? I answer: Judas by selling it: the Priests by advising it: the people by consenting to it: Pilate by decreeing it: the soldiers by effecting it: Christ himself by permitting it, and after presenting it to God: (Heb. 9.14,) our sins, that chiefly caused it. If any ask for whom it was shed? I answer briefly for the Church, Act. 20. not for himself, nor for impenitent, and obstinate sinners, that dye in their sins.
2. This blood was shed. If you aske, who shed it? I answer: Iudas by selling it: the Priests by advising it: the people by consenting to it: Pilate by decreeing it: the soldiers by effecting it: Christ himselfe by permitting it, and after presenting it to God: (