A17384:2763
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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Twelfthly, the implacable person. Such men as are so furious, there is no appeasing of them, but they are like a Bear robbed of her whelps, Pro. 17.12. They are mad-men, that will hear no reason. A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty: but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both, Pro. 27.3.
Twelfthly, the implacable person. Such men as are so furious, there is no appeasing of them, but they are like a Bear robbed of her whelps, Pro. 17.12. They are mad-men, that will heare no reason. A stone is heauy, and sand is waighty: but a fool's wrath is heauier than them both, Pro. 27.3.
Thirteenthly, all men that abuse their prosperity, to the greater liberty of sin and injury. They are mad-men, that cannot be ruled, unless they be kept fasting. A man distracted, if you let him have his belly filled, will trouble the whole house: so a wicked man, if he enjoy prosperity and success, will disquiet the whole town where he lives. There are four things, saith Solomon, disquiet the earth, and one of them is a fool with his belly filled, that is, a wicked man when he prospers, and hath what he will, Pro. 30.22.
Thirteenthly, all men that abuse their prosperity, to the greater liberty of sinne and iniury. They are mad-men, that cannot be ruled, vnlesse they be kept fasting. A man distracted, if you let him haue his belly filled, will trouble the whole house: so a wicked man, if hee enioy prosperity and successe, will disquiet the whole town where he liues. Ther are foure things, saith Salomon, disquiet the earth, and one of them is a fool with his belly filled, that is, a wicked man when he prospers, and hath what he will,