A17385:378
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.
15. The skin, flesh, blood, and dung of the heifer must be burnt, Ver. 5. By the skin, flesh, and blood may be meant the substance of the flesh of Christ: and by the dung, the base indignities and contumelies, which were cast upon him, and these were all offered up, and sacrificed in the fire of his passion.
16. Ver. 6. Cedar-wood, hyssop, and scarlet are not without their signification: The Papists reach high here, that can find in these three to be meant three persons suffering with Christ: By Hyssop should be meant the Virgin Mary, and by the Cedar, John the Evangelist, and these two should suffer with him per compassionem mentis, and by the scarlet should be meant the thief, that suffered with him per compassionem carnis.
16. Ver. 6. Cedar-wood, hysop, and scarlet are not without their signification: The Papists reach high here, that can finde in these three to bee meant three persons suffering with Christ: By Hysop should be meant the Virgin Mary, and by the Cedar, Iohn the Evangelist, and these two should suffer with him per compassionem mentis, and by the scarlet should be meant the theefe, that suffered with him per compassionem carnis.
Some think that the Cedar-wood is hope, that dwells on high, and will not be putrefied: Hyssop is faith, a low growing herb, that fastens her root upon the rock: scarlet is charity: Others understand by the Cedar contemplation: by the hyssop humility, and by scarlet twice dyed, charity which is twice dyed,1 viz. on the one side with the love of God, on the other with the love of our neighbour: All these must burn in the Lords passion: but I think, that hereby may be noted, that three things arise out of the passion of Christ: 1. th […] of immortality. 2. the hyssop of mortification: For so