A17384:2062
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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And thus much of the faculties of the soul.
And thus much of the faculties of the soule.
1Now the end of all this follows: The Lord made the soul, & endowed it with so excellent a being, & so admirable faculties, that so the Lord might in this visible world have a creature, that would know him and serve him rightly. The creatures without sense are Gods workman-ship, but discern nothing of God, or themselves, or other things. The creatures with sense discern other things by sense, but know nothing of God: Now God made man, as the abridgement of all he had made, and gave him this soul, of purpose that he might discern God aright, and serve, and worship and praise him.
1Now the end of al this follows: The Lord made the soul, & endowed it with so excellēt a being, & so admirable faculties, that so the Lord might in this visible world haue a creature, that would know him and serue him rightly. The creatures without sense are Gods workman-ship, but discerne nothing of God, or themselues, or other things. The creatures with sense discern other things by sense, but know nothing of God: Now God made man, as the abridgement of all hee had made, and gaue him this soule, of purpose that hee might discerne God aright, and serue, and worship and praise him.
- 1The end why the soul was made.The end why the soule was made.