A17384:121
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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1Hypocrites are not all of one sort. Some are close Hypocrites:2 some are open. The open Hypocrite thou mayest show thy dislike of his courses, and avoid him: But the close Hypocrite thou canst not discern, or not certainly; and if thou follow thine own conjectures, thou mayest sometimes condemn a dear child of God, and approve a detestable Hypocrite.
1Hypocrites are not all of one sort. Some are close Hypocrites:2 some are open. The open Hypocrite thou maist shew thy dislike of his courses, and auoide him: But the close Hypocrite thou canst not discerne, or not certainely; and if thou follow thine owne coniectures, thou maist somtimes condemne a dear childe of God, and approue a detestable Hypocrite.
- 1Sol.
- 2About censuring other men for Hypocrisy.About censuring other men for Hypocrisie.
1But how may the open Hypocrite be discerned?
- 1Quest.