A17384:270
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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The cause of this heartlessness and want of affection in the wicked, is,
The cause of this hartlesnes and want of affection in the wicked, is,
First,1 their ignorance, they know not either the word, or the worth of the word, or their own need of it.
- 1Inward lets in wickedmen▪
Secondly, their profaneness & irreligiousness: They live without God, or without Christ in the world, they make no conscience of their ways. They forget their later end: they mind not the good of their souls, but only earthly things: they ⟨p. 58⟩never tasted of the bountifulness of the Lord, but were altogether corrupt, and strangers from the life of God, only greedy in sinning.
Secondly, their prophaneness & irreligiousnes: They liue without God, or without Christ in the world, they make no conscience of their waies. They forget their later end: they minde not the good of their soules, but only earthly things: they ⟨p. 58⟩neuer tasted of the bountifulnes of the Lord, but were altogether corrupt, and strangers from the life of God, only greedy in sinning.