A17384:1008
A commentary
A commentary: or, sermons upon the second chapter of the first epistle of Saint Peter wherein method, sense, doctrine, and use, is, with great variety of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of divinity largely discussed. By Nicholas Byfield, late preacher of God's Word at Isle-worth in Middlesex.A commentary: or, sermons vpon the second chapter of the first epistle of Saint Peter vvherein method, sense, doctrine, and vse, is, with great variety of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of diuinity largely discussed. By Nicholas Byfield, late preacher of God's Word at Isle-worth in Middlesex.
London: printed by Humphrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623London: printed by Humfrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623
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First,1 by the renovation of the heart. The knowledge of God's love in Christ, doth make ⟨p. 224⟩the heart of man new: it cleanseth out the old dross, and makes a man hate his secret and most secret sins. Faith purifieth the heart, Acts 15.
First,1 by the renouation of the heart. The knowledge of God's loue in Christ, doth make ⟨p. 224⟩the heart of man new: it clenseth out the old drosse, and makes a man hate his secret and most secret sinnes. Faith purifieth the heart, Acts 15.
- 1Marks of a true saving •aith.Marks of a true sauing •aith.
Secondly, by the joy and comforts of the holy Ghost; with which the believer's hart is refreshed from the presence of God, 1. Pet. 1.9.
Secondly, by the ioy and comforts of the holy Ghost; with which the beleeuer's hart is refreshed from the presence of God, 1. Pet. 1.9.