A17384:2251
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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Now a Christian may lose his works divers ways.
Now a Christian may lose his workes diuers wayes.
First,1 if he be but a Christian in show, he may, nay he shall lose all he doth. The Pharisees lost all their works, because they were done in hypocrisy.
First,1 if he be but a Christian in shew, hee may, nay hee shall lose all hee doth. The Pharises lost all their workes, because they were done in hypocrisie.
- 1How a man may lose his works.How a man may lose his workes.
Secondly, the Christian that hath some kinds ⟨p. 512⟩of heavenly gifts, and temporary grace, by falling away in the time of temptation, loseth all that he had wrought before. God requires patient continuance in well-doing, Rom. 2.8.
Secondly, the Christian that hath some kindes ⟨p. 512⟩of heauenly gifts, and temporary grace, by falling away in the time of temptation, loseth all that hee had wrought before. God requires patient continuance in well-doing,