A17384:2925
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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Secondly, by employing our gifts, the best that we can for their good, 1. Pet. 4.10. Now our gifts are either spiritual, or outward gifts. First, spiritual gifts are, knowledge, utterance, prayer, or the like. Now these are given to profit withal, not our selves only, but others, 1. Cor. 12. Thus Christians should help others with what they have learned, when they meet together, Proverbs 15.7. ⟨p. 698⟩1. Cor. 14.26. Colos. 3.16. And thus they must help one another by prayer, whether they be absent, or present, 2. Cor. 1.11. Secondly, outward gifts are riches, friends, authority, and the like: and these should be employed especially for the good of the brethren, Psal. 16.3. Gal. 6.10. Phil. 2.4. And all this we should do with all faithfulness, 3. John 3.5. and with all compassion, putting-under our shoulders to bear their burdens, Gal. 6.2. Now their burdens are either inward temptations, or outward afflictions: in both these we should help to bear their burdens: If they be burdened with infirmities, or temptations, we should bear their burdens, by laying their griefs to our hearts, and by striving to comfort them; and if their secrets be for wrongs to us, we should let them see, how easily we can forgive them. If it be outward afflictions that burden them, we bear their burdens, when we sorrow with them that sorrow, and are ready to the uttermost of our power, to advise them, or relieve and help them.