A17384:2761
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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Tenthly, the unthankful and injurious person: he is a mad man, that will strike his friend that provoketh him not: and so are all Nabals: their folly is ⟨p. 657⟩with them that use their friends, as Nabal did David, 1. Sam. 25.25.
Tenthly, the vnthankfull and iniurious person: he is a mad man, that wil strike his friend that prouoketh him not: and so are all Nabals: their folly is ⟨p. 657⟩with them that vse their friends, as Nabal did Dauid, 1. Sam. 25.25.
Eleventhly, the contentious person. He is a mad man, that layeth snares to catch himself, and will speak things that force strokes upon himself: so is every unquiet, intemperate busy-body. A fool's lips, saith Solomon, enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes. A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul, Pro. 18.6, 7. Eccles. 10.12. Pro. 14.3.
Eleuenthly, the contentious person. He is a mad man, that laieth snares to catch himself, and will speak things that force strokes vpon himself: so is euery vnquiet, intemperate busie-body. A fool's lips, saith Salomon, enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes. A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soule, Pro. 18.6, 7.