A17384:2939
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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Use 4. Fourthly, all poor Christians, that are true Christians, have much cause to reioy•e, Jam. 1.9. for, they have a great kindred. All the Godly are their brethren, yea, the Apostles, Acts 15.23. yea, the godly Kings, Psalm 122.8. yea, the Angels, Reu. 19.10. yea, Christ himself is not ashamed to call them brethren, Rom. 8.29. Heb. 2.10. Mat. 12.49. I might add, that wicked men should take heed ⟨p. 702⟩how they oppose godly men: there are a great kindred of them; and they never prospered, that wronged them: yea, some great Ones have been fain to humble themselves, and to lick the very dust of their feet sometimes, that they might be reconciled to them, Isaiah 60.14. Mat. 7.17.
Vse 4. Fourthly, all poor Christians, that are true Christians, haue much cause to reioy•e, Iam. 1.9. for, they haue a great kinred. All the Godly are their brethren, yea, the Apostles, Acts 15.23. yea, the godly Kings, Psalm 122.8. yea, the Angels, Reu. 19.10. yea, Christ himself is not ashamed to call them brethren, Rom. 8.29