A17384:2177
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,1 if they consider Gods commandment, which forbiddeth all excesses of this kind, Psalm 33.13. Tit. 3.1.
First,1 if they consider Gods commandement, which forbiddeth all excesses of this kind, Psalme 33.13. Tit. 3.1.
- 1Reasons against evil speaking.Reasons against euill speaking.
Secondly, if they consider the causes of their evil speaking; which as was showed before, is the malice of their own hearts against the truth, and the especial working of the devil, who is the fire of hell, that sets their tongues awork, Jam. 3.
Secondly, if they consider the causes of their euil speaking; which as was shewed before, is the malice of their owne hearts against the truth, and the especial working of the diuel, who is the fire of hell, that settes their tongues aworke, Iam. 3.