A17384:124
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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1First, by an ordinary and usual affectation of the praise of men, in doing good duties. When a man constantly sets himself out to the show, it is an apparent mark of a false heart. Mark, that I say an usual affectation.
1First, by an ordinary and vsuall affectation of the prayse of men, in doing good duties. When a man constantly sets himselfe out to the shew, it is an apparant marke of a false heart. Marke, that I say an vsuall affectation.
- 1How an open Hypocrite may be discerned.
Secondly, if a man make a show of the means of godliness, or liking the means of godliness, or of the persons that are godly; and yet it be manifest that he hates to be reformed, lives in known gross faults; and being rebuked by the word, or servants of God, will not reform, but carrieth a grudge at the parties that laboured his reformation: This is an evident mark of an Hypocrite. Now to judge these is no offence.
Secondly, if a man make a shew of the meanes of godlinesse, or liking the meanes of godlinesse, or of the persons that are godly; and yet it bee manifest that he hates to be reformed, liues in known grosse faults; and being rebuked by the word, or seruants of God, will not reforme, but carrieth a grudge at the parties that laboured his reformation: This is an euident marke of an Hypocrite. Now to judge these is no offence.
Thirdly, It is a sign of an Hypocrite, when a ⟨p. 31⟩