A17384:2345
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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For the kinds:1 God doth visit men either with the visitation of justice, or with the visitation of ⟨p. 536⟩mercy; in wrath, or in grace: and the former words of this Text are true of either of these kinds. For, if God visit wicked men by his special judgements, they will then give glory to God, and commend godly Christians; whom before, against their consciences, they spake evil of: which they will also do much more, if God visit them with his grace, and convert them.
For the kindes:1 God doth visit men either with the visitation of iustice, or with the visitation of ⟨p. 536⟩mercy; in wrath, or in grace: and the former words of this Text are true of either of these kinds. For, if God visit wicked men by his speciall iudgements, they will then giue glory to God, and commend godly Christians; whom before, against their consciences, they spake euill of: which they will also doo much more, if God visit them with his grace, and conuert them.
- 1God visits men two ways especially.God visits men two waies especially.
1First, then, of the visitation of justice: and so the point to be here observed, is, that Though God may spare wicked men long, and seem to wink at their faults, yet he will find a day to visit them for their sins: he will hold a visitation for their sakes: he will discover their wickedness, and avenge himself on them, Psal. 50.20