A17384:157
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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Thirdly, if we consider the vile effects of it, which are many: for, 1. It hath done many mischiefs, for which it is infamous. It sold Joseph into Egypt, Genes. 37: and, which should ever make it abhorred of us, it killed the Son of God, Mat. 27.8. 2. It deforms our natures: it makes a man suspicious, malicious, contentious: it makes us to provoke, backbite, and practise evil against our neighbours. It is ill for our sight: for, the envious man hath always an evil eye, and a cast-down countenance with Cain also many times. 3. It begins even death and hell, while a man is alive. It kills the silly one, Job 5.2. It destroyeth the contentment of his life, and burns him with a kind of fire unquenchable. It feeds upon the envious man, like the moth or worm, by degrees: and it hasteneth mischief in the envious man, because it makes the person envied more glorious; and, besides, it is a vice that driveth a man from among men, in respect of comfortable society: for, it was long since advised, Eat not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Pro. 23.6: and no man by his good will, if he can be free, will converse with such as he perceives to be envious.
Thirdly, if wee consider the vile effects of it, which are many: for, 1. It hath done many mischiefs, for which it is infamous. It sould Ioseph into Egypt, Genes. 37: and, which should euer make it abhorred of vs, it kild the Son of God, Mat. 27.8. 2. It deforms our natures: it makes a man suspicious, malitious, contentious: it makes vs to prouoke, backbite, and practise euill against our neighbours. It is ill for our sight: for, the enuious man hath alwaies an euill eye, and a cast-down countenance with Cain also many times. 3. It begins euen death and hell, while a man is aliue. It kils the silly one, Iob 5.2. It destroieth the contentment of his life, and burns him with a kinde of fire vnquenchable. It feeds vpon the enuious man, like the moth or worm, by degrees: and it hasteneth mischief in the enuious man, because it makes the person enuied more glorious; and, besides, it is a vice that driueth a man from among men, in respect of comfortable society: for, it was long since aduised, Eat not the bread of him that hath an euill eye,