A17384:2399
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 use should be chiefly to move godly men to the exact study of those things,1 and to all possible thankfulness for Gods visitation: and they should with much joy remember the very time (if it may be) when God did so visit them: and if the men of this world keep commemoration yearly of the days of their birth or marriage; how much more cause hath a Christian to preserve in himself, and to speak of it to the praise of God, the very day and season, when God did first reveal his grace unto him? Let none mistake me. I mean it not of all Christians:2 for many Christians did never observe or know distinctly the very first day of their conversion, being not called either by ordinary means, or not in such a sensible manner as some others were, or stood for a time in temporary grace: yet unto all, the counsel is profitable, that, taking a day in the sense as it is here, they ⟨p. 555⟩should often think of with gladness the season of their conversion, or at least magnify God for the thing it self, that they are converted.
The vse should be chiefly to moue godly men to the exact study of those things,1 and to all possible thankfulnes for Gods visitation: and they should with much ioy remember the verie time (if it may bee) when God did so visit them: and if the men of this world keep commemoration yearely of the daies of their birth or marriage; how much more cause hath a Christian to preserue in himselfe, and to speake of it to the praise of God, the verie day and season, when God did first reueal his grace vnto him? Let none mistake me. I meane it not of all Christians:2 for manie Christians did neuer obserue or knowe distinctly the verie first daie of their conuersion, being not called either by ordinarie meanes, or not in such a sensible manner as some others were, or stood for a time in temporary grace: yet vnto all, the counsell is profitable, that, taking a day in the sense as it is heer, they ⟨p. 555⟩