A commentary

Name: A commentary
Author: Nicholas Byfield

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.

Nicholas Byfield 1579–1622London: printed by Humphrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623London: printed by Humfrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623

[16], 922, [6] p. · 245k words · STC 4211 · ESTC S107078

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Question. But what shall such godly persons as are afflicted with melancholy do in this case of affections?

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Answer. They must attend these things:

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¹First, they must be persuaded to see the disease in the body which extends the oppression of it to the very affections.

¹First, they must be perswaded to see the disease in the body which extends the oppression of it to the very affections.

1Rules for such as be afflicted with melancholy.

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Secondly, they must remember times that are past, and judge of their estate by what it was before.

Secondly, they must remember times that are past, and iudge of their estate by what it was before.

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