A17384:150
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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Thus much of Hypocrisy.
Thus much of Hypocrisie.
Envy.]
Enuy.]
The fourth sin to be avoided is Envy.
The fourth sin to be auoided is Enuy.
Envy is nothing else but a vexation or inward displeasure conceived at the good of another: viz. either another's credit, gifts, preferment, profit, success, or the like.
Enuy is nothing else but a vexation or inward displeasure conceiued at the good of another: viz. either anothers credit, gifts, preferment, profit, successe, or the like.
This sin, though in the world it be little thought of, yet in it self is a most fearful vice; and should be so accounted of by christians, for many reasons.