A17384:2114
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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This then is the question: What are those things which would so adorn the outward conversation of Christians and make it fair and amiable?1 For answer hereunto there are things distinctly which are of singular praise, and much adorn a Christians conversation, and make it fair.
This then is the question: What are those things which would so adorne the outward conuersation of Christians and make it faire and amiable?1 For answer heereunto there are things distinctly which are of singular praise, and much adorne a Christians conuersation, and make it faire.
- 1Six things to be looked to, to express a fair conversation.Six things to be looked to, to expresse a fayre conuersation.
The first is harmlessness, to be free from all courses of injury, and cruelty, and oppression and the like. A hurtful and injurious conversation is a foul and unseemly conversation.
The first is harmelesnes, to bee free from all courses of iniury, and cruelty, and oppression and the like. A hurtfull and iniurious conuersation is a foule and vnseemely conuersation.
The second is discretion: when men carry themselves with all due respect of their words, and the consideration of the time, place, and persons with whom they converse: a discreet conversation, is a wonderful fair conversation: ⟨p. 475⟩