A17384:1451
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 living in such want of all things, as he affirms, Luke 9.57, 58.
1First, by liuing in such want of all things, as he affirms, Luke 9.57, 58.
- 1showed in four things.shewed in foure things.
Secondly, by refusing the preferments were offered him upon sinful •earms; whether by the devil, who offered him all the glory of the Kingdoms of the world; or by men, who would have made him King.
Secondly, by refusing the preferments were offred him vpon sinfull •earms; whether by the diuell, who offred him all the glory of the Kingdoms of the world; or by men, who would haue made him King.
Thirdly, by knowing no man after the flesh, by his neglect of earthly kindred: his hearers were his father and mother, brothers and sisters: he esteemed of men according to their spiritual estate ⟨p. 327⟩in Gods Kingdom, and not according to their outward estate in the world.