A17384:2316
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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Thus of some motives. The main care should be to learn what to do, that GOD might be made glorious by us: and so we should distinctly consider, how to make him glorious in our selves or in others.
Thus of some motiues. The maine care should bee to learne what to doo, that GOD might bee made glorious by vs: and so wee should distinctly consider, how to make him glorious in our selues or in others.
In our selves we should learn how to make him glorious: first, in our hearts, by a glorious conception of him in our minds: secondly, in our words and works, by acknowledgement.
In our selues wee should learne how to make him glorious: first, in our hearts, by a glorious conception of him in our minds: secondly, in our words and works, by acknowledgement.
The first question then is, What should we do ⟨p. 527⟩that we might conceive more gloriously of God? For answer hereunto, we must look to our hearts in divers particulars: for, that we may conceive of God according to his excellency, we must proceed by these degrees.
The first question then is, What should we doe ⟨p. 527⟩that we might conceiue more gloriously of God? For answer hereunto, we must looke to our hearts in diuers particulars: for, that wee may conceiue of God according to his excellency, we must proceed by these degrees.