A17384:2630
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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1Ans. I answer: Such as live in notorious offences; such as are swearers, drunkards, whoremongers, railers, thieves, idle persons, murderers, Sabbath-breakers, sowers of discord, and the like. The original word doth point at some special sort of offenders: For, naming evil doers, such especially must not scape, as ⟨p. 619⟩1. Invent evil where it is not. 2. Or sin not out of ignorance, but wilfully▪ 3. Or are leaders of other men to evil. 4. Or make a trade of offending by custom in sin. 5. Or study how to do mischief, gathering together, as things might further their evil courses.
1Ans. I answer: Such as liue in notorious offences; such as are swearers, drunkards, whoremongers, railers, theeues, idle persons, murtherers, Sabbath-breakers, sowers of discord, and the like. The original word doth point at some speciall sort of offendors: For, naming euill doers, such especially must not scape, as ⟨p. 619⟩1. Inuent euill where it is not. 2. Or sinne not out of ignorance, but wilfully▪ 3. Or are leaders of other men to euill. 4. Or make a trade of offending by custome in sinne. 5. Or studie how to doe mischiefe, gathering together, as things might further their euil courses.
- 1Who are branded for evil doers.Who are branded for euill doers.
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