A17384:1164
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 serve for great humiliation unto all wicked men, that find themselves stopped, or hindered, or cast out of the way by receiving scandal into their hearts: They should here take notice of it, that it is a singular curse of God, when God leaves a man to the liberty of admitting poisonfull objections, and thereby to be hardened against the care for his own soul in matters of Religion. Men little think of the fearfulness of such mens cases, which must needs be extremely evil, either if they look upward to see, that God doth expose them to this offence, as a way of singular punishment, or if they look to the effect, whatsoever they can say, yet their poor souls in the mean time are left destitute of mercy, or the profit and power of it.
Secondly, this should serue for great humiliation vnto all wicked men, that find themselues stopped, or hindred, or cast out of the way by receiuing scandall into their hearts: They should heere take notice of it, that it is a singular curse of God, when God leaues a man to the liberty of admitting poisonfull obiections, and thereby to bee hardned against the care for his owne soule in matters of Religion. Men little thinke of the fearefulnes of such mens cases, which must needes be extremely euill, either if they looke vpward to see, that God doth expose them to this offence, as a way of singular punishment, or if they look to the effect, whatsoeuer they can say, yet their poore soules in the meane time are left destitute of mercy, or the profit and power of it.