A17384:2787
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, it imports, that sturdy, self-willed, ⟨p. 665⟩perverse Christians, that cannot be diverted, or advised, are to be reckoned in the rank of these fools, what show soever they make of a better estate.
Fourthly, it imports, that sturdy, self-will'd, ⟨p. 665⟩peruerse Christians, that cannot bee diuerted, or aduised, are to be reckoned in the rank of these fooles, what shew soeuer they make of a better estate.
Fifthly, it doth comfortably import, that when one is teachable, and hates reproaching, and will do or say nothing against the truth, and is not pleased with his ignorance, but judgeth himself for it, and useth the means to get the knowledge and love of the truth, that such a person is escaped from the congregation of these fools, and is in some measure enlightened with true wisdom from above.
Fiftly, it doth comfortably import, that when one is teachable, and hates reproching, and will do or say nothing against the truth, and is not pleased with his ignorance, but iudgeth himselfe for it, and vseth the meanes to get the knowledge and loue of the truth, that such a person is escaped from the congregation of these fooles, and is in some measure inlightened with true wisdome from aboue.
Sixthly, it may warn all that love their own souls, hereafter to take heed, and with care to avoid wilfulness, and self-conceitedness. Let men take heed they be not wise in themselves, but strive to frame themselves to be true workers of wisdom, and withal to take heed of a multitude of words: he that cannot be silent, cannot be wise, or godly.