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An exposition upon the Epistle to the Colossians Wherein, not only the text is…An exposition vpon the Epistle to the Colossians Wherein, not onely the text is…
An exposition upon the Epistle to the Colossians Wherein, not only the text is methodically analysed, and the sense of the words, by the help of writers, both ancient and modern is explained: but also, by doctrine and use, the intent of the holy Ghost is in every place more fully unfolded and urged. ... Being, the substance of near seven years week-days sermons, of N. Byfield, late one of the preachers for the city of Chester.An exposition vpon the Epistle to the Colossians Wherein, not onely the text is methodically analysed, and the sence of the words, by the help of writers, both ancient and moderne is explayned: but also, by doctrine and vse, the intent of the holy Ghost is in euery place more fully vnfolded and vrged. ... Being, the substance of neare seuen yeeres weeke-dayes sermons, of N. Byfield, late one of the preachers for the citie of Chester.
London: printed by Edward for Nathaniel Butter, 1617
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.
Of Christ.] His sufferings may be said to be the sufferings of Christ,1 either as Christ is taken for the whole mystical body, (which is not strange in Scripture; for by Christ, in 1 Cor. 12. he meaneth the body of Christ,) or as he is the head of the Church: and so the afflictions of Gods servants may be said to be his sufferings; either because they be such as he should suffer himself, if he were on earth; or because they were laid upon him by Christ, for the Churches good; or because they were for Christ and his doctrine; or because they deserve nothing, but all the praise is Christs; or because of the sympathy of Christ with the Christian, who accounts them as if they were his sufferings. And in this latter sense I think chiefly, these words are to be taken: for it is certain, Christ doth so feel the miseries of his people, that he accounts them in that respect, to be his own miseries, as these places show, Heb. 4.15. Rom. 8.17. Matth. 25.42. &c. Phil. 3.10. 1 Pet. 4 13. 2 Cor. 1.4. Acts 9.4. Hence grew that witty division of Christs sufferings into [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew]; so as the first should be understood of the sufferings he endured in his own person, and the latter of the sufferings he felt in his members.
Of Christ.] His sufferings may bee sayd to bee the sufferings of Christ,1 either as Christ is taken for the whole mysticall body, (which is not strange in Scripture; for by Christ, in 1 Cor. 12