A17384:27
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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There are five things we should lay aside and be sure we be free from,1 when we come into gods presence to hear his word, or to be exercised in it: viz. Malice, Guile, Hypocrisy, Envy, and evil speaking.
THere are fiue things we should lay aside and be sure wee be free from,1 when wee come into gods presence to heare his word, or to bee exercised in it: viz. Malice, Guile, Hypocrisie, Enuy, and euill speaking.
- 15. Things to be avoided, if we would profit by the word.5. Things to be auoided, if we would profit by the word.
Two things distinctly must be considered in verse first, the sins to be avoided: viz. those five before named. Secondly, the manner of avoiding them▪ imported in the metaphorical term laying aside. In general diverse things may be noted.
Two things distinctly must bee considered in verse first, the sinnes to be auoided: viz. those fiue before named. Secondly, the manner of auoiding them▪ imported in the metaphoricall tearme laying aside. In generall diuerse things may be noted.
First,1 that it is exceeding profitable to gather ⟨p. 4⟩