A17384:1385
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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Secondly, now for the Hypocrite: though the difference be hidden, yet it may be assigned in divers things, as,
Secondly, nowe for the Hypocrite: though the difference be hidden, yet it may bee assigned in diuers things, as,
First,1 the holiness of the godly Christian slows from a pure conscience, and faith unfeigned: whereas there is no such repentance, or faith in the Hypocrite.
First,1 the holines of the godly Christian slowes from a pure conscience, and faith vnfained: whereas there is no such repentance, or faith in the Hypocrite.
- 1Differences between the Hypocrite and Gods elect in the holiness of conversation.Differences betweene the Hypocrite and Gods elect in the holines of conuersation.
Secondly, the true Christian hath his praise of God, but the Hypocrite of men, Rom. 2.26.