A17384:2266
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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For the second: the show is condemned in divers sorts of works;1 as, 1. Secret duties, of what kind soever, must ⟨p. 514⟩not be done to the beholding of others: thus, to pray or fast, that others may see or hear, is not lawful, Mat. 6. 2. Such works as are done deceitfully, are justly taxed for the show of them: as, when Ananias and Sapphira will make a show of bounty, which was not performed as they pretended, Acts 5. 3. All works that are done with affectation, when the praise of men is simply and only sought, are Pharisaical, and ill done. 4. All the works that are done about the use of the means of godliness, if practice be not joined with them, are rejected of God, and the show of them is condemned. Thus, to make a show of hearing Sermons, reading the Scriptures, frequent and long prayers, strict observing of the rest of the Sabbath, and the like, when there is not a sound care of a holy life, are not good works, nor is the show of them commended, Isaiah 1. Mic. 6. 5. To show care of lesser duties, and live in the careless and manifest neglect of greater and more necessary duties, is likewise Pharisaical, and condemned, Mat. 23.
For the second: the shew is condemned in diuers sorts of works;1 as, 1. Secret duties, of what kinde soeuer, must ⟨p. 514⟩not bee done to the beholding of others: thus, to pray or fast, that others may see or hear, is not lawfull, Mat. 6. 2. Such works as are done deceitfully, are iustly taxed for the shew of them: as, when Ananias and Saphirah will make a shew of bounty, which was not performed as they pretended,