A17384:2292
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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Ninthly, when men do in particular give thanks to God for benefits or deliverances, acknowledging God's special hand therein: Thus the Leper gave glory to God, Luke 17.18. so Psal. 113.4.
Ninthly, when men do in particular giue thanks to God for benefits or deliuerances, acknowledging God's speciall hand therein: Thus the Leper gaue glory to God, Luke 17.18. so Psal. 113.4.
Tenthly, by loving, praising, admiring, and esteeming of Jesus Christ above all men: For, when we glorify the Son, we glorify the Father, John 1.14. & 11.4.
Tenthly, by louing, praysing, admiring, and esteeming of Iesus Christ aboue all men: For, when we glorifie the Sonne, we glorifie the Father, Iohn 1.14. & 11.4.
Eleventhly, when we account of and honour godly men, above all other sorts of men in the World; and so these Gentiles do glorify God, in that they praise the Christians above all men, whom before they reviled: This is one way by which the Gentiles glorified God.