A17384:273
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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Thirdly, Atheism. There is in the harts of all wicked men in some degree abominable conceits concerning God and his word. They either doubt, whether the scriptures be the true word of god: or else they are strongly carried to resolve, there is no profit in the knowledge of gods ways, or in serving the almighty. Job. 21.14. Malac. 3.15.
Thirdly, Atheisme. There is in the harts of all wicked men in some degree abominable conceits concerning God and his word. They either doubt, whether the scriptures be the true word of god: or els they are strongly carried to resolue, ther is no profit in the knowledge of gods waies, or in seruing the almighty. Iob. 21.14. Malac. 3.15.
Fourthly, Cares of life: The love of the profits, or pleasures of this life, choke the word, and the power of it, as is apparent by these places. Math. 13. Luke, 14. Psal. 119, 36, 37, &c.
Fourthly, Cares of life: The loue of the profits, or pleasures of this life, choak the word, and the power of it, as is apparant by these places. Math. 13. Luke, 14. Psal. 119, 36, 37, &c.