A17384:1078
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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Seventhly, in others it is a wilful and malicious hatred of the truth: and such was it in those Pharisees, that were guilty of the sin against the holy Ghost.
Seuenthly, in others it is a wilfull and malitious hatred of the truth: and such was it in those Pharises, that were guilty of the sin against the holy Ghost.
Quest. 2. But how shall a simple ignorant man stay his heart, and be settled in the truth, when the wise and learned men of the world oppose it? how can he tell, it is the truth which they reject, who have more learning and wit than he?
Quest. 2. But how shall a simple ignorant man stay his heart, and bee settled in the truth, when the wise and learned men of the world oppose it? how can he tell, it is the truth which they reiect, who haue more learning and wit than hee?
Ans. I answer: A simple and single-hearted Christian may some-what be helped against the testimony of those wise men of the world, if he mark but their lives: for, usually by their fruits ⟨p. 240⟩they may be known,1 Mat. 7. For, commonly, such as oppose Christ and the Gospel, or the sincerity of the Gospel, are men that may be apparently detected of profaneness, as our Saviour Christ shows by diverse instances in the Pharisees, Mat. 23.