A17384:153
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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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.
This sinne, though in the world it bee little thought of, yet in it self is a most fearfull vice; and should be so accounted of by christians, for many reasons.
First,1 if we consider the subject persons in whom it usually is. It is found most in natural men, Tit. 3.3; yea, in silly men, Job 5.2. This was the sin of Cain, Gen. 4; yea, of the devil himself. The main sin of the devil was the envy of mans happiness. It reigned in the devilish Gentiles, Rom. 1.29.
First,1 if we consider the subiect persons in whom it vsually is. It is found most in naturall men,