A17384:2329
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 third thing which we must labour for, is, to magnify God in our hearts, to make him great, to conceive largely, with full thoughts of God: and to this I add also, to conceive gloriously of him, to clothe our thoughts of God, with a shining excellency above any thing else we think of. Now, that God may be magnified, and thought on after a glorious manner, these things must be done.
The third thing which we must labour for, is, to magnifie God in our hearts, to make him great, to conceiue largely, with full thoughts of God: and to this I adde also, to conceiue gloriously of him, to clothe our thoughts of God, with a shining excellency aboue any thing else wee thinke of. Now, that God may bee magnified, and thought on after a glorious manner, these things must bee done.
1We must, with all attendance and reverence, wait upon the presence of God in his house; for that is the place where his glory dwelleth, Psalm 27.8. And God hath magnified his Word above all his name, Psalm 138.2. And the use of the Gospel, is said to be the Gospel of the glory of the blessed God, because it doth, with the livelyest impressions, ⟨p. 531⟩make a mans heart to discern Gods excellency, Mic. 5.4. 1. Tim. 1.11.
1Wee must, with all attendance and reuerence, waite vpon the presence of God in his house; for that is the place where his glory dwelleth,