A17384:2347
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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Use. And this doctrine should especially humble wicked men, and awake them out of their security; and the rather, if they consider seriously of diverse things about this day of their visitation.
Vse. And this doctrine should especially humble wicked men, and awake them out of their security; and the rather, if they consider seriously of diuerse things about this day of their visitation.
Secondly, that, when it doth come, it will be a marvellous fearful time with them: for, 1. God will then discover their sins, and make their wickedness manifest in the hatefulness of it, Lam. 4.22. 2. GOD will inflict sore punishments upon them: he will be avenged on them. The day of ⟨p. 537⟩their visitation will be the day of their calamity, Jer. 46.21. 3. The punishments determined, cannot be resisted: there will be no help, Isaiah 10.3. and 29.6. Coh. and 26.14. 4. God will not then respect their strength, but their sin. He will recompense them according to all that they have done,