A17384:2152
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly, in the devil: it is his policy, here by.
Secondly, in the diuell: it is his policy, heere by.
1. To keep men from embracing a religion that is so traduced,1 Acts 28. 2. To discourage and hinder the weak Christian, and to make him fearful in the way of God. 3. To pull back certain men which were going towards the Kingdom of God.
1. To keepe men from embracing a religion that is so traduced,1 Acts 28. 2. To discourage and hinder the weake Christian, and to make him fearefull in the way of God. 3. To pull back certaine men which were going towards the Kingdome of God.
- 1Causes why godly men are evil spoken of.