A17384:2943
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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This worship is a religious honour we give to God; I say, religious honour, to distinguish it from that civill honour which in general we give to all men, or in special, to some men, either for their graces, as to the godly, or for their authority, as to Kings and Superiors.
This worship is a religious honour wee giue to God; I say, religious honour, to distinguish it from that ciuill honour which in generall we giue to all men, or in speciall, to some men, either for their graces, as to the godly, or for their authority, as to Kings and Superiours.
This worship of God is either internal, or external. The internal, is the worship of the hart: the external, is the worship of the body. The internal, is the very life and soul of the external; without which, the external is but a dead & contemptible carcass.
This worship of God is either internall, or externall. The internall, is the worship of the hart: the externall, is the worship of the body. The internall, is the very life and soule of the externall; without which, the externall is but a dead & contemptible carcase.
The fear of God, here commanded, belongs to the inward worship: and so it is to be noted, that the Apostle, when he would charge Christians about ⟨p. 703⟩piety and devotion to God, doth not enjoin them to come to Church, to hear the Word, receive the Sacraments, or pray, though these be else-where required; but especially requires, that they look to the heart within,1 that the true fear of God be preserved in them, and that especially for two causes. First, because men may do that which belongs externally to the outward worship, and yet be still but hypocrites and wicked men, as is manifest in the case of the Jews, Isaiah 1. and of the Pharisees, Ma. 23. Secondly, because if they be rightly formed in the inward devotion of the heart, that will constrain them to the care of the outward worship: he would have them then be sure of the fear of God in their hearts.