A17384:2100
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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Verse 12. And have your conversation honest amongst the Gentiles; that they which speak evil of you, as evil doers, may by your good works which they shall see, glorify God in the day of their visitation.
Verse 12. And haue your conuersation honest amongst the Gentiles; that they which speak euill of you, as euill doers, may by your good works which they shall see, glorifie God in the day of their visitation.
Hitherto of the dehortation. The words of this verse are an exhortation: wherein consider both what he exhorts to, and by what reasons. The matter he exhorts to, concerns their outward conversation, which he would have to be honest and amiable. The reasons are,
HItherto of the dehortation. The words of this verse are an exhortation: wherein consider both what hee exhorts to, and by what reasons. The matter hee exhorts to, concernes their outward conuersation, which he would haue to be honest and amiable. The reasons are,
First, because the Christians lived among Gentiles, that embraced not the true Religion.
First, because the Christians liued among Gentiles, that imbraced not the true Religion.