A17384:2748
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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Seventhly, some of them discover themselves, by suffering themselves to be buffeted and abused, and yet are content to be used so still: and such are they that will suffer themselves to be abused by false teachers, so they be of their own humour, though they devour them in their estates, and bring them into bondage in their minds, though they take of them, and exalt themselves insolently among them, 2. Cor. 11.19, 20.
Seuenthly, some of them discouer themselues, by suffering themselues to be buffetted and abused, and yet are content to be vsed so still: and such are they that will suffer themselues to bee abused by false teachers, so they bee of their owne humour, though they deuoure them in their estates, and bring them into bondage in their mindes, though they take of them, and exalt themselues insolently among them, 2. Cor. 11.19, 20.
Eighthly, they discover it, by building the hopes of the salvation of their souls upon most vain and insufficient grounds: they build on the sands: they trust upon an universal mercy of God, ⟨p. 654⟩and the example of the most, and upon the bare use of God's Ordinances, without any power of faith, or practice in their hearts or lives: and therefore in time of tribulations, their hope is as the giving up of the ghost: all is ruined, and their souls are desolate, Mat. 7.26. They will be at no pains to be assured of their salvation and Religion, but go on, without any particular regard of their own way to heaven, Pro. 14.8.
Eightthly, they discouer it, by building the hopes of the saluation of their soules vpon most vain and insufficient grounds: they build on the sands: they trust vpon an vniuersall mercy of God,