A17384:2204
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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Doct. 3. Thirdly, that the soundest way of confuting our Adversaries, is by our works: we must make real apologies: we must put them to silence by well-doing. Now, in that he calls the good ⟨p. 498⟩works done by them, their good works, I might note diverse things.
Doct. 3. Thirdly, that the soundest way of confuting our Aduersaries, is by our works: we must make reall apologies: we must put them to silence by well-dooing. Now, in that he calls the good ⟨p. 498⟩works done by them, their good works, I might note diuerse things.
1. The necessity of good works: they must have works of their own: the good works done by others, avail not them, nor justify them. 2. The goodness of God, that vouchsafeth to call those works their works, when yet they were wrought by him, as having had their beginning from his grace and Spirit, Isaiah 26.12. 3. It is true, that they only can do good works; good works are only theirs: a wicked man cannot do good works, because his person is hateful to God, and his nature altogether impotent; and though he may do some actions, which for the matter of them are good, yet he pollutes them with his sins, of which he hath not repented; and cannot bring them forth complete for matter, manner, and end, Tit. 1. ult. Mat. 6.
1. The necessity of good works: they must haue works of their owne: the good works done by others, auail not them, nor iustifie them. 2. The goodnes of God, that vouchsafeth to call those works their works, when yet they were wrought by him, as hauing had their beginning from his grace and Spirit, Esay 26.12. 3. It is true, that they onely can doo good works; good works are onely theirs: a wicked man cannot doo good works, because his person is hatefull to God, and his nature altogether impotent; and though he may doo some actions, which for the matter of them are good, yet hee pollutes them with his sinnes, of which hee hath not repented; and cannot bring them forth compleat for matter, manner, and end,