A17384:2751
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 spiritual mad-man follows to be described: and so these sorts of men following, are convicted of madness in the Scripture;
The spirituall mad-man followes to bee described: and so these sorts of men following, are conuicted of madnes in the Scripture;
1First, the Atheist: he is a man void of reason, that denies principles: and such a one is he that saith in his heart, There is no God, as he that denies the providence of God, Psalm 14.1. and 94.8.
1First, the Atheist: hee is a man void of reason, that denies principles: and such a one is hee that saith in his heart, There is no God, as hee that denies the prouidence of God, Psalm 14.1. and 94.8.
- 1Signs of spiritual madness.Signes of spirituall madnes.
Secondly, the swearer: the fools or mad-men blaspheme God's Name, Psalm 74.18. He were a mad-man, that would daily rail at the King to his face: and such are blasphemers.