A17384:252
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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1Secondly, Tis a sign of desire after the word, when we can stick to the word, and the constant frequenting of it, notwithstanding the scorns and shame of the world: Psal. 119, 31, 46, 141. It is a sure testimony of our love to the gospel, when we can forsake father and mother, brother and sister, house and land for the Gospels sake: Mark. 10.29.
1Secondly, Tis a signe of desire after the word, when we can stick to the word, and the constant frequenting of it, notwithstanding the scornes and shame of the world: Psal. 119, 31, 46, 141. It is a sure testimony of our loue to the gospell, when we can forsake father and mother, brother and sister, house and land for the Gospells sake: Mark. 10.29.
- 1Other signs of true desire.Other signes of true desire.
Thirdly, It is a sign of love to the word, and of desire after it, when we can mourn for the famine of the word, as a bitter cross. Psal. 42.3.4.
Thirdly, It is a signe of loue to the word, and of desire after it, when we can mourn for the famine of the word, as a bitter crosse. Psal. 42.3.4.