A17384:1152
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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So then,1 a scandal is any thing, which causeth, or occasioneth offences, by which a man is made to halt, or is brought into a snare, or made to stand still, or fall in matter of Religion, or salvation: And so the sorcerers were a stumbling block to Pharaoh, and the false prophets to Ahab, and the lying signs of Antichrist, to such as love not the truth.
So then,1 a scandall is any thing, which causeth, or occasioneth offences, by which a man is made to halt, or is brought into a snare, or made to stand still, or fall in matter of Religion, or saluation: And so the sorcerers were a stumbling block to Pharaoh, and the false prophets to Ahab, and the lying signes of Antichrist, to such as loue not the truth.
- 1Scandal defined and distinguished.Scandall defined and distinguished.
Now, all scandal may be thus divided: Scandal is either active, or Passive, that is, given, or taken: Scandal given, is, when the author of the action is likewise the cause of the hurt that comes by it: Thus Eli's sons were scandalous: thus David by his grievous sins gave offence, 1. Sam. 2.17.2. Sam. 18.22, &c. and thus Scandal is given either by evil doctrine, first, whether heretical, secondly, or superstitious: or else by wickedness of life, or by wilful abuse of Christian liberty.
Now, all scandall may be thus diuided: Scandall is either actiue, or Passiue, that is, giuen, or taken: Scandall giuen, is, when the authour of the action is likewise the cause of the hurt that comes by it: Thus Elies sonnes were scandalous: thus Dauid by his greeuous sinnes gaue offence,