A17384:2657
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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Doct. 5. Welldoing ought to be esteemed wheresoever it is found, in a subject, as well as a Prince, in a servant, as well as a Master: in all estates and conditions of men: For God doth so, as may appear, ⟨p. 626⟩Ephes. 6.7, 8. and grace and goodness is alike precious, wheresoever it is in the like degree: which serves to rebuke that secret corruption in the natures of men, that are apt to observe and praise good things in greater persons, but withhold the encouragement is due to other men, only because they are poor, and because they are worser, James 2.1, 2, 3. You may now by this doctrine try, whether they be good themselves: For it is a sign of goodness, to observe and love goodness, wheresoever he seeth it: in a servant, as well as in a friend, and in a poor Christian, as well as a rich.
Doct. 5. Weldoing ought to be esteemed whersoeuer it is found, in a subiect, as well as a Prince, in a seruant, as well as a Master: in all estates and conditions of men: For God doth so, as may appear, ⟨p. 626⟩Ephes. 6.7, 8. and grace and goodnes is alike precious, wheresoeuer it is in the like degree: which serues to rebuke that secret corruption in the natures of men, that are apt to obserue and praise good things in greater persons, but withhold the incouragement is due to other men, onely because they are poore, and because they are worser, Iames 2.1, 2, 3. You may now by this doctrine try, whether they be good themselues: For it is a signe of goodnes, to obserue and loue goodnes, wheresoeuer he seeth it: in a seruant, as well as in a frend, and in a poore Christian, as well as a rich.