A17384:2307
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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The second use should be therefore, to beget in us a care to use all means to dispose of, and fit our selves, that we might make God glorious, and so amend and redress our ways herein; and that we may, the more effectually, be wrought upon herein, I will consider of two things. First, I will briefly show the reasons should stir us to all possible ⟨p. 525⟩care and diligence herein. Secondly, I would show how we may distinctly attain to the glorifying of God in all the three ways before mentioned.
The second vse should be therefore, to beget in vs a care to vse all meanes to dispose of, and fit our selues, that we might make God glorious, and so amend and redresse our wayes herein; and that we may, the more effectually, be wrought vpon herein, I will consider of two things. First, I will briefly shew the reasons should stirre vs to all possible ⟨p. 525⟩care and diligence heerin. Secondly, I would shew how we may distinctly attain to the glorifying of God in all the three waies before mentioned.
For the first. Diverse considerations should move us to the care of magnifying or glorifying of God by all the ways we can.
For the first. Diuerse considerations should moue vs to the care of magnifying or glorifying of God by all the waies we can.
First,1 it is a great honour that God doth unto us, to account himself to receive glory any way from our endeavours. Shall the creature be admitted, in any sense, to that glory, to make his Creator, to make him (I say) in his excellency or glory? God doth account himself to receive a new Being, as it were, by those inward conceptions of his glory, and by those outward honours done unto him. Shall the King of glory vouchsafe to dwell in our hearts? and shall we not be exceedingly desirous to entertain him?