A17384:2088
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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Now if the flesh, notwithstanding, do on the sudden (either provoked by the world, or enticed by the devil) make assault and lust after evil things: then in the conflict, our armour must be, 1. Contrary lustings, Gal. 1.17. The Spirit must lust against the flesh, by raising up holy desires, and loathing of those base affections of the flesh. 2. Prayer: we must crucify them, drag them before the Cross of Christ, and there accuse them, shame them, judge them, condemn them, and beg virtue from the death of Christ to kill them. 3. The Word of God. For as Christ beat away the devil, by alleging what was written: so should we get store of places of Scripture, which we might allege to our own hearts, when we are enticed to any sin: and so the promises of the Gospel would be as shoes to our feet; that neither thorny care prick, nor vain pleasures defile us: and so those promises are, because they both show us greater things then fleshly pleasures can be, and withal show us such treasure in Christ, as may free us from living in care.
Now if the flesh, notwithstanding, doe on the sudden (either prouoked by the world, or entised by the deuill) make assault and lust after euill things: then in the conflict, our armour must be, 1. Contrary lustings, Gal. 1.17. The Spirit must lust against the flesh, by raising vp holy desires, and loathing of those base affections of the flesh. 2. Prayer: we must crucifie them, drag them before the Crosse of Christ, and there accuse them, shame them, iudge them, condemne them, and begge vertue from the death of Christ to kill them. 3. The Word of God. For as Christ beat away the deuill, by alleaging what was written: so should wee get store of places of Scripture, which wee might alleage to our owne hearts, when wee are entised to any sinne: and so the promises of the Gospell would bee as shooes to our feete; that neither thorny care prick, nor vaine pleasures defile vs: and so those promises are, because they both shew vs greater things then fleshly pleasures can bee, and withall shew vs such treasure in Christ, as may free vs from liuing in care.