A17384:3119
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. The use should be for admonition, and instruction to such Masters, husbands, wives, or others that find themselves guilty of this hateful vice, to labour by all means to get themselves cured of it, remembering the counsel of the holy Ghost, Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee, Pro. 4.14. and to this end they must observe these rules:
Vse. The vse should bee for admonition, and instruction to such Masters, husbands, wiues, or others that finde themselues guilty of this hatefull vice, to labour by all meanes to get themselues cured of it, remembring the counsell of the holy Ghost, Put away from thee a froward mouth, and peruerse lips put farr from thee, Pro. 4.14. and to this end they must obserue these rules:
First, they must become fools, that they may be wise:1 they must begin the cure at the denial of themselves, and their vain conceits. For if they trust to their own discretion, and natural gifts, they will never mend: For natural gifts can never ⟨p. 742⟩make that which is crooked, straight, Eccles. 1.15.
First, they must become fooles, that they may bee wise:1 they must begin the cure at the deniall of themselues, and their vaine conceits. For if they trust to their owne discretion, and naturall gifts, they will neuer mend: For naturall gifts can neuer ⟨p. 742⟩