A17384:257
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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Lastly, To strive against our dullness constantly, and to pray to be quickened, is a good sign, that we have some desire to the word. One may love gods precepts, and yet need to be quickened. Psal. 119.159.
Lastly, To striue against our dulnes constantly, and to pray to be quickned, is a good signe, that we haue some desire to the word. One may loue gods precepts, and yet need to be quickned. Psal. 119.159.
Use 2. Secondly, this doctrine of desire, and appetite after the word may much humble the most of us; some being altogether void of all desire after it, more then for fashion sake: and the better sort have their appetites either dull, or decayed.
Vse 2. Secondly, this doctrine of desire, and appetite after the word may much humble the most of vs; some being altogether void of all desire after it, more then for fashion sake: and the better sort haue their appetites either dull, or decayed.
Quest. Whence comes it that people have no ⟨p. 56⟩more affection to the word, or that men are so clo•ed with the word?
Quest. Whence comes it that people haue no ⟨p. 56⟩more affection to the word, or that men are so clo•ed with the word?