A17384:130
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly, sometimes desire to get credit, and to be well thought on (especially when it is mixed with envy at the respects of others) drives some men headlong into Hypocritical courses, Math. 6.
Secondly, sometimes desire to get credit, and to bee well thought on (especially when it is mixt with enuie at the respects of others) driues some men headlong into Hypocriticall courses, Math. 6.
Thirdly, sometimes men are emboldened unto Hypocrisy, by a secret persuasion, that Christ will defer his coming, and they shall not of a long time be brought to account, Matthew 24.48, 50.
Thirdly, sometimes men are emboldned vnto Hypocrisie, by a secret perswasion, that Christ will deferre his comming, and they shall not of a long time be brought to account, Matthew 24.48, 50.
Fourthly, men fall into Hypocrisy for gain, to hide their wicked and deceitful courses: So the Pharisees, Math. 23.14. so 1. Tim. 4.2, 7.
Fourthly, men fall into Hypocrisie for gaine, to hide their wicked and deceitfull courses: So the Pharises,