A17384:2370
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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4Fourthly, he hath a new heart, Zach. 36.27. Which appears in what he hath not, which was wont to be in his heart; and in what he hath, which was never there before. And for the first branch, there is not in him any of these things following: By the way understand, that these things are not in him as they were wont to be (that is) they reign not, or they lie adying: and so, 21. There is not guile there; his spirit is without guile, Psal. 32.2. Which he shows, in that he avoids lesser sins aswell as greater,1 is as good in secret as well as in company, and serves God in his spirit aswell as his body, and is more desirous to be good then to seem so. 22. There is not malice and passion there, Isaiah 11. His outrageous and boisterous passions are subdued: of a Lyon, he is become a Lamb. 33. There is not covetousness or the love of world there, 1. Joh. 2.14. Jam. 4.3. he useth the world, but he admires it not. His taste in earthly things is lost. He savours them not as he was wont to do, Romans 8.5.
4Fourthly, hee hath a newe heart, Zach. 36.27. Which appeares in what hee hath not, which was wont to bee in his heart; and in what hee hath, which was neuer there before. And for the first branch, there is not in him any of these things following: By the way vnderstand, that these things are not in him as they were wont to bee (that is) they raigne not, or they lie adying: and so, 21. There is not guile there; his spirit is without guile,