A17384:2851
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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Men may use their liberty, and the doctrine of it, ⟨p. 680⟩as a cloak of wickedness, taking the word in the general sense five ways.
Men may vse their liberty, and the doctrine of it, ⟨p. 680⟩as a cloke of wickednes, taking the word in the generall sense fiue waies.
1First, when men reject their liberty, and spurn at it, and trample it under feet, as if it were a doctrine of sinning, or made a means of sin. Thus he that would not eat, did reject those ceremonial meats, as very badges of wickedness, and did by that sign judge of such as did use them, to be hypocrites, Rom. 14.3. as we see now many Christians do reject and spurn at the ceremonies imposed, and do judge all that use them, to be but formal Christians and hypocrites, and such as persuade to the use of them, to use such persuasions, but as cloaks for their ambition, & hope of preferment, how godly soever they be, or how sure soever they be of their lawful use of their Christian liberty therein: and so this is one way of abusing our liberty, when we throw it away, as if it were a very cloak of maliciousness.
1First, when men reiect their liberty, and spurn at it, and trample it vnder feete, as if it were a doctrine of sinning, or made a meanes of sin. Thus he that would not eat, did reiect those ceremoniall meates, as very badges of wickednes, and did by that signe iudge of such as did vse them, to bee hypocrites, Rom. 14.3. as we see now many Christians doe reiect and spurne at the ceremonies imposed, and doe iudge all that vse them, to bee but formall Christians and hypocrites, and such as perswade to the vse of them, to vse such perswasions, but as clokes for their ambition, & hope of preferment, how godly soeuer they bee, or how sure soeuer they bee of their lawfull vse of their Christian liberty therein: and so this is one way of abusing our liberty, when we throw it away, as if it were a very cloke of maliciousnes.