A17384:238
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Use 1. The use of all may be chiefly threefold: For,
Vse 1. The vse of all may bee cheefly threefold: For,
1First it may serve for trial: we should every one examine our selves, whether we have this true desire after the word, or no. For, if we find this, we are sure to prosper: and if we find it not, we are nothing but starvelings in matter of godliness.
1First it may serue for triall: wee should euery one examine our selues, whether wee haue this true desire after the word, or no. For, if wee find this, wee are sure to prosper: and if we find it not, wee are nothing but staruelings in matter of godliness.
- 1For trial.For triall.
Question. But how may we know, whether ⟨p. 53⟩we have this estimation, longing after, and constant affection to the word?
Question. But how may wee know, whether ⟨p. 53⟩wee haue this estimation, longing after, and constant affection to the word?