A17384:1369
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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But then we must look to divers rules about our conversation, that it may be right: for,
But then wee must looke to diuers rules about our conuersation, that it may bee right: for,
First,1 it must be a good conversation in Christ, 1. Pet. 3.16.
First,1 it must be a good conuersation in Christ, 1. Pet. 3.16.
- 1Special rules for the right ordering of us in an holy conversation.Speciall rules for the right ordering of vs in an holy conuersation.
Secondly, it must be a conversation discharged from those usual vices, which are hateful in such as profess the sincerity of the Gospel, and yet common in the world, such as are lying, wrath, bitterness, rotten communication, or cursed speaking, or the like, Eph. 4.25. Col. 3.8. 1. Pet. 1.14.