A17384:1177
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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The consciences of wicked men are diversly affected: some are without feeling of any grievance in the matters of their souls; some have feeling. The conscience is without feeling, either through a continual security, and sleepiness, which is in all men, or through a searedness, by which some men are grown past feeling. Now those wicked men that have any feeling in this text, are cast into two sorts; for either they are offended, or they despair. Christ is to those latter, an occasion of their ruin, they suffer shipwreck upon Christ, which is joined with singular offence, or pain, or grievance of their consciences. This rock is like that in the Judges, chap. 6.21. out of which fire went and consumed them.
The consciences of wicked men are diuersly affected: some are without feeling of any grieuance in the matters of their soules; some haue feeling. The consciēce is without feeling, either through a continuall security, and sleepines, which is in all men, or through a searednes, by which some men are growne past feeling. Now those wicked men that haue any feeling in this text, are cast into two sorts; for either they are offended, or they despaire. Christ is to those latter, an occasion of their ruine, they suffer shipwracke vpon Christ, which is ioyned with singular offence, or paine, or grieuance of their consciences. This rocke is like that in the Iudges, chap. 6.21. out of which fire went and consumed them.
The despair that wicked men feel, is of two sorts. For either it is a despair, which riseth from their persuasion of their want of help in spiritual things, or from their want of help in outward things: sometimes they fall into desperate torments, and griefs, and fears about outward things, either ⟨p. 265⟩upon fear of danger, or upon an apprehension that they are utterly undone, or shall be in matters of the world:1