A17384:2253
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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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, Rom. 2.8.
Thirdly, the true Christian may lose what he wrought, if he do his works without respect of these Rules: If it be not manifest that his works are wrought in God, they are lost to him; so many of his works as are so wrought: Besides, he loseth the comfort of all that he hath wrought, and the sense of it, if he fall into gross sin after calling, for so long time as he continueth in sin without Repentance.
Thirdly, the true Christian may lose what hee wrought, if he doe his works without respect of these Rules: If it be not manifest that his workes are wrought in God, they are lost to him; so many of his works as are so wrought: Besides, he loseth the comfort of all that hee hath wrought, and the sense of it, if he fall into grosse sinne after calling, for so long time as he continueth in sinne without Repentance.