A17384:2303
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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But especially, woe be to scandalous Christians, that have either caused wicked men to blaspheme, or God's little ones to take offence, and conceive ill of the good way of God: if they repent not, it had been better for them they had never been born.
But especially, wo be to scandalous Christians, that haue either caused wicked men to blaspheme, or God's little ones to take offense, and conceiue ill of the good way of God: if they repent not, it had been better for them they had neuer been born.
And as for wicked men that are openly so (to give a touch of them and their estate) they have reason to repent in sackcloth and ashes, if their eyes were but open to see, what terror is implied in this doctrine, and how God will avenge himself upon them, both for their not glorifying of him, ⟨p. 524⟩and for changing his glory, and for the opposing of his glory.
And as for wicked men that are openly so (to giue a touch of them and their estate) they haue reason to repent in sackcloth and ashes, if their eies were but open to see, what terrour is implied in this doctrine, and how God will auenge himselfe vpon them, both for their not glorifying of him, ⟨p. 524⟩and for changing his glory, and for the opposing of his glory.
1. In not glorifying God. They have spent their days without GOD: they have either not conceived of him at all, or in a most mean and vile manner: they have not honoured him in his ordinances, or in his Sabbaths: they never loved the Lord Jesus in their hearts, &c. 2. In changing the glory of God, they have done shamefully. Some of them have turned Gods glory into the similitude of an Ox or a Calf that eateth hay. Some of them have given his praise to Images, and the works of their hands. Some of them have fixed the glory of their affections upon riches, pleasures, and favour of men. Some of them have made their belly their god: and some have given their bodies to harlots.