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A17411 Sermons vpon the first chapter of the first epistle generall of Peter Wherein method, sense, doctrine and vse is with great varietie of matter profitably handled. By Nicholas Byfeild preacher of Gods word at Isleworth in Middlesex. The rest of the epistle may be published in due time, if God will. Byfield, Nicholas, 1579-1622. 1617 (1617) STC 4234; ESTC S120373 55,966 106

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and feruent desire of pietie The benefit is the reconciling of the people to God and the establishing of the couenant In the 〈◊〉 of bloud mentioned Leuit. 16. I note onely foure things 1 The benefits that come by it which are first entrance within the vaile euen the right to the kingdome of heauen 2 The assured procurement and continued establishment of mercy from God noted by the sprinkling of the mercie seate 7. times 2 The intercession of Christ noted by the incense heated by the burning coales of his owne ardent affection Vers 12. 13. 3 The perfection of Christs mediation in that no man is ioyned with him nor must any man bee present Vers. 17. 4 The extent of the benefits to all the Elect noted by the sprinkling of the bloud vpon the foure hornes of the Altar The Vse of all may be briefly both for instruction and consolation For instruction 1 To the people who should be aboue all things carefull to seeke the comfort of the application of Gods fauour in Iesus Christ oh we must aboue all things by faith keepe this sprinkling of bloud as is said of them Heb 11 28. 2 Ministers should hence take notice of the maine end of preaching which is to sprinkle bloud vpon the hearts of the people that they may both bee setled in the knowledge and assurance of their right in Christ and the couenant of grace and likewise purged in their consciences from dead works we do little by preaching if we beget not reformation and assurance in the hearts of the people he preacheth not that sprinkles not 2 For Consolation Be not fearefull Christs bloud will protect thee as safely as euer did the bloud of the paschal lambe the ●hildren of Israell Be not doubtfull of the efficacie of it For if the bloud of buls and goates c. could purifie in respect of legall clensings how much more shall the bloud of Christ who by the eternall spirit offered vp himselfe to God purge thy conscience from dead workes and make attonement for all thy sins clensing thee from all vnrighteousnesse Heb. 9. 13. 14. 15. 1 Ioh. 1. 7. Be not discontent with thy condition thou hast what was merited and purchased with bloud how little soeuer it seeme in thy eyes But especially be not vnthankfull for such a singular way of mercy but with all gladnesse of heart reioyce aboue all things in Christ and him crucified for thee Hetherto of the persons saluted the forme of the salutation followes Grace and peace be multiplied to you It was the manner in their salutations to wish to their friends that which they accounted a chiefe happinesse to them So doth the Apostle here wishing the multiplying of grace and peace Grace 〈◊〉 peace Grace must be co●●dered two waies 1 First as it is in God and so it is his free loue and gracious disposition to shew mercy in Christ. 2 Secondly as it is in man and so it notes either the gifts of their minde or their condition or estate in Christ and so the faithfull are said to be vnder grace and not vnder the law Peace is both inward and outward Inward peace consists in the contentation and rest of the soule and so it is both the rest of the conscience from terrors and the rest of the heart from passions and perturbations Outward peace is nothing else but prosperity or an estate free from vnquietnesse and molestation and adorned with needfull blessings Grace and Peace are the two principall things to be sought and wished in this world when Christ comes to inrich the world hee comes with grace and truth Ioh. 1. he cannot be miserable that hath these two nor happy that wants them altogether Which may be a singular comfort to a Christian in grace and peace is his portion and hee may go boldly to the throne of God in the intercession of Christ to begge either of these in his need Heb. 4. vl● God may deny him other things but he will neuer deny him grace and peace And therefore also Christians should ioy in the grace of God wherein they stand Rom 5. 3 and be resolued in themselues that the grace of God is sufficient for them 2. Cor. 12. 9. Especially they should praise and esteeme and glorifie the grace of God It is all God askes for as it were at our hands euen to honour him by praising his grace and free loue to vs Eph. 1. 6. Woe vnto wicked men that neglect the grace of God what shall it profit them to gaine the world which yet they doe not and want grace and peace but especially why doe they not let Christians alone with their portion why doe they trouble them in their peace and despight them for their grace can they not follow their pleasures lusts profits honors c. and let Christians liue quietly by them who desire but libertie to enioy grace with peace There is something also to be noted from the order of placing grace must bee had before peace there can bee no peace to the wicked and he is vndoubtedly wicked that hath not the grace of God Be multiplied Grace and Peace is multiplied 1 First when the number of gracious persons is increased This is to be sought and prayed for 2 When the kinds of grace and peace are all had For there is the manifold grace of God 3 Thirdly when the measures and degrees are augmented The Husbandman would faine haue his seede increase and the Tradesman his trade so would the ambitious man his honors preferments c. Euen so should the Christian bee ambitious and couetous in his desires that his grace and peace might increase Quest. What should wee doe that grace and ●eace might be multiplied Ans. 1 Be sure it be true grace else it will neuer ●ncrease 2 Thou must increase in meeknesse and humili●ie For God will giue more grace to the humble ●am 4. 8. and the meeke shall haue abundance of peace Psal. 37. 6. 11. 3 If thou wouldest haue thy grace and peace ●ncrease thou must be constant much in the vse of all the ordinances of God which are the meanes of grace and peace As thou measurest to God in ●he meanes so will God measure to thee in the successe thou must be much in hearing For grace is in the lippes of Christ Psalm 45. 3. and much peace shall be to them that loue Gods lawes Psal. 119. and ●hou must go often vnto God by praier who giues grau and glory and will withold no good thing Psalm 84. 12. 2 Thes 1. 11. 12. Runne by faith to Christ who is the Prince of peace Es 9. 6. and stir vp the grace of God that is in thee For thou hast not receiued the spirit of feare but of power 2. 〈◊〉 4 Thou must not perplex thy heart with cares of this life but in all things go to 〈◊〉 praier and cast all thy care vpon him so shalt 〈◊〉 haue peace that
and that is that they were answered of God where obserue two things 1. The manner of the giuing the answer it was by reuelation 〈◊〉 whom it was re●ealed 2. The matter of the answer which concernes bo●h Persons and Things The persons are considered negatiuely and so they were resolued that they themselues were not the men to whom those glories did belong and affirmatiuely that they did minister those things vnto vs Christians Now the things promised are not onely propounded but commended and that two waies 1. By the glory of their effi●ient causes which were lesse principall the Apostles and more principall the Holy Ghost sent downe from heauen 2. By the adiunct respect of the Angels which things the Angels desire to looke into Hitherto of the consolation The exhortation followes from v. 13. to the end where obserue 1. The things vnto which they are exhorted v. 13. 2. The reasons by which the exhortation is inforced The things to which he doth exhort are three 1. The first concernes the renouation of the mind Girde vp the loynes of your minde 2. The second concernes the moderation of life be sober 3. The third concernes the confirmation of their hope Trust perfectly on the grace to be brought c. ver 13. The reasons follow and they are 6 in number taken from the consideration 1. Of the image of God verses 14 15 16. 2. of the iudgement of God verse 17. 3. of the redemption in Christ verses 18 19 20 21. 4. of the relation to the godly verse 22. 5. of the immortality of the soule verse 23. 6. and sixtly of the mortalitie of the body verses 24 25. The first reason taken from the image of God is both propounded and expounded propounded in these words as obedient children expounded two waies 1. by description 2. by testimonie By description 1. negatiuely shewing what they should shunne Not fashioning your selues to the lusts of your former ignorance verse 14. ●2 He sets it out affirmatiuely both by shewing the patterne to be imitated viz the holin●sse of him that called them and also the manner of imitation viz to be holy in all manner of conuersation vers 15. In the testimony two things are to bee noted 1. whence the proofe was fetched in these words As it is written and 2. what was alledged viz Be yee holy as I am holy v. 16. The second reason is taken from the iudgment of God where note 1. The proposition of the reason viz He that yee call vpon as father c. 2. The inference or vse of the same viz Passe the time of your ●oiourning in feare In the proposition consider 1. who shall be iudge viz he that was called vpon as a father 2. how hee shall iudge viz without respect of persons 3. whom he shall iudge viz euery man 4. for what they shall be iudged viz according to their works verse 17. The third reason is taken from the consideration of our redemption and this reason should moue the more 1. Because all the pretious things in the world could not redeeme man verse 18. 2. Because the deliuerance from our vaine conuersation was one of the maine ends of our redemption verse 18. 3. Because our redemption was effected by a matchles price viz the passion of Christ which is increased 1. In that it was a suffering euen to the effusion of blood 2. that it was a suffering of one that was so infinitely pure without spot or blemish vers 19. 4. Because our redemption was ordained in Gods counsell verse 20. 5. Because the honor of manifesting Christ in the cleare preaching of the Gospell is done now to vs Christians and not to the fathers of old v. 20. 6. Because our ●●demption was ratified by God the Father and that two waies 1. By raising Christ from the dead 2. By giuing him glory v. 21. 7. Because all this was done that our faith and hope might be in God verse 21. The fourth reason is taken from our relation to the godly vers 22. In which reason obserue 1. A proposition of doctrine 2. An exhortation by way of vse The proposition in it selfe properly concernes sanctification which is described 1. By the nature of it imported in the metaphoricall terme purified 2. The subiect of it your soules 3. The forme of it in obeying the truth 4. The cause of it the spirit 5. The end of it which was brotherly loue amplified by the property of it vnfained The exhortation is therefore to loue one another with a pure heart feruently The fift reason is taken from the immortalitie of the soule which is considered two waies 1. In respect of the fountaine of it which is the new birth 2. In respect of the meanes of it which is set downe 1. negatiuely not of corruptible seede 2. affirmatiuely where consider what the meanes is and by what it is What it is viz incorruptible seede By what it is the word which is praised for three things 1. It is of God 2. ●t li●eth 3. It abideth for euer verse 23. The sixt reason is taken from the mortalitie of the body compared with the eternity of the word of God vers 24 25. Of the vanity of man v. 24. which is both propounded and repeated propounded as it concernes either the person of man All flesh is grasse or the condition of man All the glory thereof is as the flower of grasse The repetition as it concernes both is in these words The grasse withereth and the flower falleth away The eternitie of the word of God is propounded in these words but the word of the Lord endureth for euer and explained by shewing of what word he speaketh in these words and this is the word which is preached vnto you THE METAPHRASE of the first Chapter of the first Epistle of PETER PETER by immediate calling commission from IESVS CHRIST the Embassador for the Churches to the dispersed seruants of God strangers and pilgrims in this world that dwell here and there in Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Asia and Bithinia Who for their spirituall estate were chosen of God from euerlasting and fore-seene of God with speciall approbation aboue the rest of mankinde and loued with a fatherly loue as appeares by the inward sanctification of their hearts which can be found in none but the Elect of God separated of God to these ends namely that both they might glorifie God by their holy conuersation and be glorified of God by the fruition of the benefits purchased by the blood of IESVS CHRIST and n●w estated vpon them by the application of the merits of CHRIST The grace of God euen his continuall free fauour and the gifts of his spirit and peace euen tranquillitie of heart and conscience and all comfortable and needfull prosperity be established vpon you and more and more increased in you Eternall thankes be giuen vnto God who is the God of our Lord Iesus Christ in respect of his humane nature and
cast vpon him and these were all offred vp and sacrificed in the fire of his passion 16. Vers. 6. Cedar-wood hysop and scarlet are not without their signification The Papists reach high here that cna finde in these three to be meant three persons suffering with Christ By Hyssop should be meant the Virgin Mary and by the Cedar Iohn the Euangelist these two should suffer with him per compassion●e●ment is by the scarlet should be meant the theefe that suffred with him per compassionem carnis Some thinke that the cedarwood is hope that dwells on high and will not be putrified Hysop is faith a low growing herb that lastens her root vpon the rock scarlet is charity Others vnderstand by the cedar contemplation by the hysop humility by scarlet twise died charity which is twise died viz. on the one side with the loue of God on the other with the loue of our neighbor All these must burne in the Lords passion but I think that hereby may be noted that three things arise out of the passion of Christ 1 the cedar of immortality 2. the hysop o● mortification For so the word purge applied to hysop Ps. 51. doth import 3 the scarlet is the bloud of 〈◊〉 which is twise died in that it is twise applyed once for expiation 600. yeers ago then again for iustifi●ation of euery particular beleeuer 1● The impurity of the Priests mentioned verses 7. 8. might prefigure the impuritie of the Iewish Priests till they were washed by conuersion from their sinne in killing Christ of whose conuersion is mentioned Act. 6. But rather hereby may bee gathered as the Apostle doth gather it the great excellencie of Christs Priesthood aboue all those legall Priests For they in their solemnest sacrifices were impure themselues and needed clensing but Christ was not so Heb. 10. Quest. How could the Priests be made vnclean by that which did purifie the people Answ. Vncleanenesse was two waies contracted 1 First by the foulenesse of the things touched and so hee that touched a dead corpse was vncleane 2. Secondly by the vnworthinesse of the man touching and so it was here He must professe himselfe vnworthy to touch so sacred an expiation we had need to take time euen till the euening to humble our soules and bewaile our vnworthinesse of the blood of Christ. 18 Now after the death of the Heifer it is said Verse 9. that a man that is cleane must gather vp the ashes of the Heifer and lay them vp without the Campe in a cleane place This man that is cleane is the Gentile purified by faith For this is after the death of Christ the gathering of the ashes is the applying of the merits of Christ and laying hold of the mysteries of his kingdome The laying vp of the ashes imports the Christians accounts of Christs merits as his chiefe treasure The cleane place is the cleane heart for the merits of Christ belong not to all Gentiles but to such as haue a cleane heart and will keepe the mysterie of faith in a pure conscience Without the Campe notes the natiue condition of the Gentiles who were without the law strangers from the common-wealth of Israel and from the couenant of promise without sacrifices and out of the Synagogue of the Iewes 19 These ashes are kept for the congregation to note that there shall neuer be want of merit to any Christian to any member of the congregation of Christ when he saith it is to make a water of separation it notes what our sinnes bring vpon vs by nature we are separate and cast out of Gods sight and neede the bloud of Christ to recouer vs from our separation This water was made of the ashes of the Heifer and running water to note that after separation to clense vs againe wee must bee sprinkled with a water made of the ashes of Christs merits and the water of the grace of the holy Spirit of God This is the perpetuall way of purification for sinne and in that it must be sprinkled vpon vs with Hissop it notes that wee can haue no comfort either of the merits of Christ or the grace of the spirit without the hissop of true mortification 20 Hee that gathereth the ashes must wash his clothes and be vncleane till the Euen to note that euen the neerer a Christian comes to the merits of Christ the more he is affected with the sense of his owne vncleannesse he that hath the strongest faith doth most wash his clothes yea hee retaines the sense of his vncleannesse till Euen that is till death as some interpret it Thus much of the sprinkling of the bloud of the Heifer In the sprinkling that was vsed about the passouer there are not many things which need expounding The Lambe for the Passouer is Christ the lambe of God the bloud is the bloud of Christ. The sprinkling of the blood is the application of the blood of Christ. The sprinkler is the Minister The hyssop wherewith it is sprinkled is the word of mortification The people are the faithfull The house is the soule of man The doores of the house are the eares eyes and mouth of man The benefit is deliuerance and protection from the destroying Angell In the narration of the sprinkling of bloud vsed at the ratification of the couenant The sense of the most things may be briefly touched The altar vnder the hill is Iesus Christ ready to succour and sanctifie those that are afflicted in spirit with terrors of conscience in the sense of the law giuen on the hill Sin● The pillars are the faithfull that stand before and beare witnesse to the comforts expected or felt for the sacrifice of Christ and they are 12. to note out the 12. Tribes in them all the faithfull The young men and the first borne of the children of Israell were types of the Elect in visible Churches borne againe to God his first fruites of the multitude a people consecrated to God as his onely portion These offer to God two kindes of sacrifice the one was the Holocaust or the whole burnt offring euen the dedication of themselues wholy euen of their liues vnto the death for the seruice of God and the practise of godlinesse The other was the peace offrings which were sacrifices of praise and thankesgiuing The bloud was the bloud of Christ. The basons that receiued the bloud are the word and sacraments The Altar sprinkled with bloud is Christ truely suffering and truely retaining in himselfe all sufficiency of merits The other part of the bloud sprinkled on the people notes the application of the merits of Christ to the faithfull and of his graces without diminishing from the fountaine of excellency of merit grace in himselfe The meanes by which it is sprinkled is to bee supplied out of the Heb. 9. 19. viz. the hisoppe of mortification and the scarlet of charity and the Christian loue enflamed with zeale against sinne