A17384:1020
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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The Uses are many.
The Vses are many.
Uses. First, woe to the rich men of this world, that are not rich in God & Christ, Luke 12.16.21. Let not the rich man glory in his riches, Jerem. 9. 24.
Vses. First, woe to the rich men of this world, that are not rich in God & Christ, Luke 12.16.21. Let not the rich man glory in his riches, Ierem. 9. 24.
Secondly, let the brother of low degree rejoice, in that God hath thus exalted him, James 1.9. For, godly Christians are the richest men in the world: for their possessions are greatest, because they possess Jesus Christ, and his treasures ⟨p. 226⟩James 2.5. For God is rich to all that call upon him. He cannot be a poor man, that can pray, Rom. 10.12. Christ makes amends to the poor Christian for all his wants.
Secondly, let the brother of lowe degree reioyce, in that God hath thus exalted him,