A17384:2660
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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Fourthly, they sin shamefully, that praise the wicked, and justify him that God condemneth: but Solomon hath set a note upon those persons, that they are naught themselves: For he saith, that they that break the law, praise the wicked, Prou. 28.4. and 24, 25. Psal. 10.3.
Fourthly, they sinne shamefully, that praise the wicked, and iustify him that God condemneth: but Salomon hath set a note vpon those persons, that they are naught themselues: For hee saith, that they that break the law, praise the wicked, Prou. 28.4. and 24, 25. Psal. 10.3.
Fifthly, they are yet worse, that glory in their shame, that seek praise for the excess of wickedness committed by them, either against God, or men: as they do, that would be commended for their cost bestowed on Idols, or for their worshipping of Saints or Angels, or for their revenges and wrongs done to men, or for their mightiness to hold out in drinking wine, or for their filthy acts of any kind, or for their excesses in strange apparel, or for the raising of themselves by unlawful means, or for their deliciousness in their fare, or the like. As those glory in their shame, so their end is damnation, Phil. 3.18.
Fiftly, they are yet worse, that glory in their shame, that seek praise for the excesse of wickednes committed by them, either against God, or men: as they doe, that would bee commended for their cost bestowed on Idols, or for their worshipping of Saints or Angels, or for their reuenges and wrongs done to men, or for their mightinesse to hold out in drinking wine, or for their filthy acts of any kinde, or for their excesses in strange apparell, or for the raysing of themselues by vnlawfull meanes, or for their deliciousnes in their fare, or the like. As those glory in their shame, so their end is damnation,