A17384:1460
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, by restraining reviling, & revenge: he rendered not evil for evil, he reviled not again, 1. Pet. 2.24. Rom. 15.3. He would not send fire from heaven upon them, Luke 9.55.
Secondly, by restraining reuiling, & reuenge: hee rendred not euill for euill, hee reuiled not againe, 1. Pet. 2.24. Rom. 15.3. He would not send fire from heauen vpon them, Luke 9.55.
Thirdly, by doing them all the good he ⟨p. 329⟩might: He instructed them with patience: He was the good Samaritan, that healed their wound, and was at cost with them.
Thirdly, by doing them all the good hee ⟨p. 329⟩might: Hee instructed them with patience: He was the good Samaritane, that healed their wound, and was at cost with them.
Fourthly, by receiving them with gladness, when they repented as he did, the thief on the cross.