A17384:2871
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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Fifthly, in newness of spirit, bringing new hearts to his work, not trusting the old man to do any work for God, Rom. 7.6. 5. We must do his work constantly. A servant is not he, that doth a days work and so is gone; but he that works all the year: nor hath God any servants that he hires not by life. He hath none from year to year, Psalm 119.17. We must finish his work, and never give-over, till we fulfil the task appointed us, Luke •.74. Reu. 7.17. ⟨p. 688⟩6. We must serve him with our spirits: God is a Spirit, and will be served in spirit and truth. If he may not have the service of our hearts, he rejects the service of our bodies: we must serve him with all our hearts, and all our souls, Deut. 10.12. Philip. 3.3. 7. Confidently. Servants to ill or poor masters, are fain to trust them for diet and wages: how much more should we rely upon God, and commit our selves wholly to him, taking no care but only to do his work, leaving all the rest to him? Isaiah 43.11. 8. With one shoulder, or with one consent: they must agree one with another, Zephany 3.9. 9. With all modesty, Acts 20.19. without pride, or self-conceits, or conceitedness; acknowledging, that, when we have done all, we are unprofitable servants, Luke 17.10. and with sorrow for our failings, Acts 20. Luke 15.29. and the rather, because God can find faults in his best servants, Job 4.18.