A17384:2755
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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Fourthly, the idle person. He is a mad-man, that will eat his own flesh: but such a one is the slothful person, because he brings poverty upon himself like an armed man, or else destroys the health of his body by his laziness, or brings misery upon his wife and children, or because his soul is eaten up with rust, and the canker of his negligence, Eccles. 4.5.
Fourthly, the idle person. He is a mad-man, that will eat his owne flesh: but such a one is the slothfull person, because hee brings pouerty vpon himself like an armed man, or else destroies the health of his body by his lazinesse, or brings misery vpon his wife and children, or because his soule is eaten vp with rust, and the canker of his negligence, Eccles. 4.5.
Fifthly, the wilful offender: He is a mad-man, that when he hears of some eminent danger, yet will not avoid it; such a one is every gross offender, that hearing of the judgements God will bring upon him for such sins, or perceiving that the wrath of God is broken out upon others for the like offences, yet will madly go on without fear. The prudent man feareth, and departeth from evil; but he is a fool or mad-man, that rageth and is confident, Prou. 14.16. Jerem. 5.21, 22.
Fiftly, the wilfull offender: Hee is a mad-man, that when hee heares of some eminent danger, yet will not auoide it; such a one is euery grosse offender, that hearing of the iudgements God wil bring vpon him for such sinnes, or perceiuing that the wrath of God is broken out vpon others for the like offences, yet will madly goe on without feare. The prudent man feareth, and departeth from euil; but hee is a foole or mad-man, that rageth and is confident,