A17384:114
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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2. How miserable the estate of multitudes of our own people is, by these signs we may perceive, that the plague is wonderfully spread in Israel.1 There are whole congregations of hypocrites, that is, of men that say and do not, that come near to God with their lips, and their heart is far ⟨p. 28⟩from him, that seldom or never pray but when they be sick; that regard not the inward foulness of their hearts, so their lives be either civill, or evil but in secret, Job. 15.34. Isay. 9.17.
2. How miserable the estate of multitudes of our owne people is, by these signes wee may perceiue, that the plague is wondefully spread in Israel.1 There are whole congregations of hypocrites, that is, of men that say and doo not, that come neer to God with their lips, and their heart is far ⟨p. 28⟩from him, that seldome or neuer pray but when they be sick; that regard not the inward foulnesse of their hearts, so their liues bee either ciuill, or euill but in secret, Iob. 15.34. Isay. 9.17.
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1Secondly, for instruction; and so it should teach us all to beware of this leaven of Hypocrisy,