A17384:202
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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1Ans. He that would restrain himself from being guilty of back-biting, judging, reviling, or any kind of evil speaking, must observe such rules as these.
1Ans. He that would restraine himselfe from being guilty of back-biting, iudging, reuiling, or any kinde of euill speaking, must obserue such rules as these.
- 1Rules against evil speaking.Rules against euill speaking.
First, He must learn to speak well to God, and of godliness: if we did study that holy language of speaking to God by prayer, we would be easily fitted for the government of our tongs toward men: we speak ill to men, because we pray but ill to God.
First, He must learne to speake well to God, and of godlinesse: if we did study that holy language of speaking to God by prayer, we would be easily fitted for the gouernment of our tongs toward men: we speak ill to men, because we pray but ill to God.
Secondly, he must lay this rule upon himself, and watch to the performance of it, he must study to be quiet, and meddle with his own business, and not meddle with the strife that belongs not to him; resolving, that he will never suffer, as a busy body in other mens matters. 1. Thes. 4. 1. Pet. 4.15.