A17384:3200
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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The third is a strange kind of fear, breaking the heart of a man, & so subduing his courage, that he is not able to sustain himself against the impressions of vain causes of fear. A trembling hart is the effect of an ill conscience, Deut. 28.65. Thus wicked men are said in Scripture to fear, when no man pursueth them, Pro. 28.1. and to be so faint-hearted, as the sound of a shaken leaf shall make them fly, as it were from a sword, Levit. 26.36. and as it is in Job, The sound of fear is always in his ears: yea the terrors of conscience sometime so enrage upon the offender, that no torments are like unto their terrors; which sometimes are so great, that they are hardly able to sustain themselves, but discover their horrible restlessness, by the grievous distempers of the body, or failing of their senses; being for the time, as Job saith, brought under the king of terrors, Job 18.14. What a woeful case Belshazzar was in, you may read, Daniel 5.9. These terrors are the fancies the Gentiles so much dreamed of.
The third is a strange kinde of feare, breaking the heart of a man, & so subduing his courage, that he is not able to sustaine himselfe against the impressions of vaine causes of feare. A trembling hart is the effect of an ill conscience, Deut. 28.65. Thus wicked men are said in Scripture to feare, when no man pursueth them, Pro. 28.1. and to bee so faint-hearted, as the sound of a shaken leafe shall make them fly, as it were from a sword, Leuit. 26.36. and as it is in Iob, The sound of feare is alwaies in his eares: yea the terrors of conscience sometime so enrage vpon the offender, that no torments are like vnto their terrors; which sometimes are so great, that they are hardly able to sustain themselues, but discouer their horrible restlesnes, by the grieuous distempers of the body, or failing of their senses; being for the time, as Iob saith, brought vnder the king of terrors,