A17384:1142
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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Secondly, this should much comfort godly men and women in all their afflictions, and it should make them patient, because though God afflicts them in their bodies or states, yet he spareth their souls, and doth not execute those outward crosses but with much compassion.
Secondly, this should much comfort godly men and women in all their afflictions, and it should make them patient, because though God afflicts them in their bodies or states, yet hee spareth their soules, and doth not execute those outward crosses but with much compassion.
Thirdly, it should teach us how to pray in the case of afflictions: if they be spiritual judgements, we may pray directly for the removal of them; but for temporal judgements, we must pray with condition.
Thirdly, it should teach vs how to pray in the case of afflictions: if they bee spirituall iudgements, wee may pray directly for the remoueall of them; but for temporall iudgements, we must pray with condition.
And thus of the general observations.
And thus of the generall obseruations.