A17384:1464
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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All this is required of us, we should pray for them that curse us, Math. 5. We must not render reviling for reviling, 1. Pet. 3.9. and 2.24. we should mourn for them in their miseries: so did David, Psal. 35.13, 14. and we should overcome their evil with goodness, as Rom. 12.19, 20.
All this is required of vs, wee should pray for them that curse vs, Math. 5. We must not render reuiling for reuiling, 1. Pet. 3.9. and 2.24. wee should mourne for them in their miseries: so did Dauid, Psal. 35.13, 14. and wee should ouercome their euill with goodnes, as Rom. 12.19, 20.
The eighth virtue in Christ,1 was harmlessness and inoffensiveness, and we are exhorted to unrebukeablenes: and to live without offence, because we are the sons of God, Phil. 2.15. and Christ requires in us the innocency of doves, and for the same reason compares the godly to sheep▪ Where I say, we should live without offence, I mean, without giving offence: For Christ himself, that most innocent Lamb of God, was rebuked, and reproached, and reviled, and so may the most godly Christians. It is a blessed thing to be reviled for following goodness, and for the Gospels sake.