A17384:2924
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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First,1 by making choice of them, as the only companions of our lives, Phil. 1.5. All our delight should be in them, Psal. 16.3. And so we should receive them, and entreat them, as Christ received us to Glory, that is, freely, and with all heartiness of affection, thinking nothing too dear for them, Rom. 15.7. 1. Pet. 4.9. This is the noblest kind of hospitality: no fellowship like the brotherly society of true Christians, so it be without dissimulation, and constant, Rom. 12.10. 1. Pet. 4.5.
First,1 by making choise of them, as the onely companions of our liues, Phil. 1.5. All our delight should bee in them, Psal. 16.3. And so we should receiue them, and intreat them, as Christ receiued vs to Glory, that is, freely, and with all hartines of affection, thinking nothing too deare for them, Rom. 15.7. 1. Pet. 4.9. This is the noblest kind of hospitality: no fellowship like the brotherly society of true Christians, so it bee without dissimulation, and constant, Rom. 12.10. 1. Pet. 4.5.
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