A17384:1011
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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Quest. But, how may faith be discerned in such as say they are not persuaded that they have faith; which sometimes proves to be the case of divers deer children of God?
Quest. But, how may faith bee discerned in such as say they are not perswaded that they haue faith; which sometimes proues to be the case of diuers deere children of God?
Ans. Their faith may be discerned,
First, by repentance, which cannot be separated from it:1 the sight, hatred, confession, and sorrow for their sins, is an argument of true faith, because without faith no man can have true repentance.
First, by repentance, which cannot be separated from it:1 the sight, hatred, confession, and sorrow for their sinnes, is an argument of true faith, because without faith no man can haue true repentance.
- 1Signs of a weak but yet a true faith, in weak Christians.Signes of a weak but yet a true faith, in weak Christians.