A17384:2701
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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Quest. But can a Christian be so exact, as to answer the pattern, to do just so as God wills him?
Quest. But can a Christian bee so exact, as to answer the pattern, to doe iust so as God wils him?
Ans. 1. He may, for the substance of the obedience, though not for all the degrees, or circumstances.
Ans. 1. Hee may, for the substance of the obedience, though not for all the degrees, or circumstances.
2. He may do it in desire: he must set his pattern before him, as that he desires to follow, and strives as well as he can, and is vexed because he cannot do it: and with God, if we have always done as much as well as we did desire to do, he accepts the desire for the deed: but it is certain of the most of us in the most things, that we have neither done the things right, nor brought the desiring to do them: and therefore it is just with God, if we lose what we have wrought.
2. He may do it in desire: hee must set his patterne before him, as that hee desires to follow, and striues as well as hee can, and is vexed because hee cannot do it: and with God, if wee haue alwaies done as much as well as we did desire to do, hee accepts the desire for the deed: but it is certaine of the most of vs in the most things, that we haue neither done the things right, nor brought the desiring to do them: and therfore it is iust with God, if wee lose what wee haue wrought.