A17384:2774
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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Doct. 5. It is a hard task to overcome and cure ignorance: Ignorant men, especially those that are bent against godliness, are wonderfully unteachable; God himself is fain here to devise a strange way to silence them. Solomon observed, that these men are wiser, then any man that can give a reason: And if a fool be brayed in a mortar, yet his folly will not depart from him: and a reproof will enter more into a wise man, then 100. stripes into a fool: yea it is here to be noted, that it is hard to silence them from their reproaches and follies.
Doct. 5. It is a hard task to ouercome and cure ignorance: Ignorant men, especially those that are bent against godlines, are wonderfully vnteachable; God himselfe is faine heere to deuise a strange way to silence them. Salomon obserued, that these men are wiser, then any man that can giue a reason: And if a foole be brayed in a morter, yet his folly will not depart from him: and a reproofe will enter more into a wise man, then 100. stripes into a foole: yea it is heere to be noted, that it is hard to silence them from their reproches and follies.
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