A17384:1190
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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Ans. Some things are to be avoided: some things are to be done.
Ans. Some things are to bee auoided: some things are to be done.
If we would not fall into despair,
1First, we must take heed of wilful unbelief, such as was in the Jews; when men not only neglect the assurance of salvation brought by Christ, but contemn it, and strive to put all such cares out of their heads.
1First, wee must take heed of wilfull vnbelief, such as was in the Iewes; when men not onely neglect the assurance of saluation brought by Christ, but contemn it, and striue to put all such cares out of their heads.
- 1Preservatives against despair.Preseruatiues against despair.
Secondly, we must take heed of stumbling. If men feel their hearts to be ensnared in respect of Christ, and that they are tossed with vile objections, &c. let them look to themselves, and amend in time: for, if Christ be a stone of stumbling, he may be a rock of offence.