A17384:2652
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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Further, if praise be so great a blessing, then an evil name must needs be a great curse, when it is for evil-doing: and if it be so evil to be dispraised of men, what shall it be to be dispraised of GOD, not for one, but many sins; not before a few, but before all the world; when it shall be not to mend a man (as the Magistrate's reproof may be) but to his eternal confusion?
Further, if praise bee so great a blessing, then an euill name must needs bee a great curse, when it is for euill-doing: and if it be so euill to be dispraised of men, what shall it be to be dispraised of GOD, not for one, but many sinnes; not before a few, but before all the world; when it shall be not to mend a man (as the Magistrate's reproof may bee) but to his eternall confusion?
Thus of the third doctrine.
Doct. 4. It may hence be noted, that the best men need praise; and therefore God provides, that they shall be praised: even such as do well, need to be commended.1 And this may appear both by the comfort they take, if they be commended, Pro. 15.30. and by their earnest desires to clear themselves, if they be dispraised; as we may see in David, Christ himself, and the Apostles, especially the Apostle Paul.
Doct. 4. It may hence bee noted, that the best men need praise; and therfore God prouides, that they shall be praised: euen such as doo well, need to be commended.1 And this may appear both by the comfort they take, if they be commended,