A17384:3114
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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Doct. 3. That frowardness is a vice to be avoided of all sorts of men: It is not only uncomely in servants, but in Masters too, and so consequently in all sorts of men, and it is to be avoided for many reasons.
Doct. 3. That frowardnes is a vice to bee auoided of all sorts of men: It is not onely vncomely in seruants, but in Masters too, and so consequently in all sorts of men, and it is to bee auoided for many reasons.
1First, if we consider the nature of the vice either in it self, or by comparison. It is of it self a kind of madness: A froward person, during the fit, is in some degree a mad person: Besides, they are very foolish and absurd. The month of the righteous, saith Solomon, bringeth forth wisdom, but the froward tongue shall be cut out. In which words note the opposition; The righteous mouth brings forth wisdom, but the froward mouth brings ⟨p. 739⟩forth foolish things, and therefore shall be cut out, Pro. 10.31. Could froward and peevish persons remember and consider, what passeth from them in these fits, they would be wonderfully ashamed of themselves. Again, consider how contrary frowardness is to Gods nature. He saith of His words, that there is no frowardness in them, Prou. 8.8. to note, that frowardness is a thing altogether contrary to God; so as the froward persons in their froward fits, are not like God, but rather like the devil.
1First, if wee consider the nature of the vice either in it selfe, or by comparison. It is of it selfe a kind of madnes: A froward person, during the fit, is in some degree a mad person: Besides, they are very foolish and absurd. The month of the righteous, saith Salomō, bringeth foorth wisdom, but the froward tongue shall bee cut out. In which words note the opposition; The righteous mouth brings foorth wisdome, but the froward mouth brings