A17384:2149
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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First, that it hath been the lot of godly men to be evil spoken of and traduced: As we see the Christians Churches in the primitive times were exposed to the infamous reports of the Gentiles. Two things would be here explained: First, that it hath always been so: And then the causes of it. For the first, that it hath always been so, is clear by instances of all times; before the Law, under the Law, and in the time of the Gospel.
First, that it hath beene the lot of godly men to bee euill spoken of and traduced: As wee see the Christians Churches in the primitiue times were exposed to the infamous reports of the Gentiles. Two things would be heer explained: First, that it hath alwaies beene so: And then the causes of it. For the first, that it hath alwaies beene so, is cleare by instances of all times; before the Law, vnder the Law, and in the time of the Gospell.
1. Before the Law: Ismael scoffs at Isaac: and Josephs brethren scorn and revile him. Job was accused as an Hypocrite by his own friends, and scorned by the basest of the people, Job 30.1. So was it with Moses and the Israelites, Heb. 11.26. 2. Under the Law. David was slandered by many, Psal. 31.12. The abjects tear his name, and ceased not, Psal. 35.15. The drunkards sang of him, Psa. 69.13. he was a reproach of men, a by word, a proverb, &c. So in the Prophet Essays time, Isaiah 8.18. and 59.16. and 51.8. Jeremiah complains, that they consulted how to devise devices against him, and to smite him with the tongue. 3. Under the Gospel. 1. Look to the Author and finisher of our faith, Christ Jesus: he was charged with gluttony, ⟨p. 487⟩