A17384:1382
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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First, they differ in one main cause of orderly life. For the holiness of the godly Christian proceeds from a regenerate heart: whereas the mere civil man is so naturally, or only by restraining ⟨p. 309⟩grace: He hath not been in the furnace of mortification for sin.
First, they differ in one maine cause of orderly life. For the holines of the godly Christian proceedes from a regenerate heart: whereas the meere ciuil man is so naturally, or onely by restraining ⟨p. 309⟩grace: Hee hath not beene in the furnace of mortification for sin.
Secondly, the mere civil honest man glories in this, that he pays every man his own, and is no adulterer, or drunkard, or the like notorious offender: But for the most part he is altogether defective in the religious duties of the first table, especially in the duties of the Sabbath, and the religious duties he should perform in his family.
Secondly, the meere ciuil honest man glories in this, that hee paies euery man his owne, and is no adulterer, or drunkard, or the like notorious offender: But for the most part hee is altogether defectiue in the religious duties of the first table, especially in the duties of the Sabbath, and the religious duties hee should performe in his family.
Thirdly, the mere civill honest man makes conscience of great offences, but cares not to be stained with lesser sins, whereas the true Christian lives circumspectly, and makes conscience of the least commandment.