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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.
1There may be conceived to be a threefold resurrection of a Christian. The first is sacramental. And thus we rise again in baptism. The second is corporal, cand so we shall rise again in the day of Jesus Christ, in our bodies out of the dust of the earth. The third is spiritual, and so we must rise in this life, in soul, from the death of sin, or else we shall never be delivered from the second death of this spiritual resurrection, (called elsewhere the first resurrection) he here entreats. And it is a work of the spirit of grace, delivering us from the power of sin, by which we are quickened to the heavenly desires and endeavours of holy life, by the virtue of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, applied unto us by faith, in the effectual use of Gods ordinances. It ⟨p. 3⟩is a work by which we grow conformable to Christ being risen againf, by which also we taste of the powers of the life to come, and are borne again to a lively hope of an eternal and incorruptible inheritanceg, the earnest of which we have received, and shall shortly receive the whole possession purchasedh, though for a time we be absent from the Lord. This first resurrection carieth with it a similitude or resemblance of Christ rising again, so as every Christian in this work bears the Image of Christ, and in him Christ riseth before our eyes, not only because the Lord Jesus doth in this gracious work give us a daily and fresh remembrance of his resurrection, by renewing such fruits of it, but also because he imprinteth a secret kind of heavenly mindedness, the Christian in some weak measure, living as Christ did in the interim between his resurrection and ascension, waiting always for his exaltation into heaven.
1There may bee conceiued to bee a threefold resurrection of a Christian. The first is sacramentall. And thus we rise againe in baptisme. The second is corporall,