A17384:3201
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 fourth is desperation. An evil Conscience ⟨p. 771⟩in sin, many times brings them to hellish despair of all mercy and pardon: thus Cain rageth & blasphemeth like a frantic man. And these effects of an evil Conscience are so much the more great,
The fourth is desperation. An euill Conscience ⟨p. 771⟩in sinne, many times brings them to hellish despair of all mercy and pardon: thus Cain rageth & blasphemeth like a frantick man. And these effects of an euill Conscience are so much the more great,
1. Because the Conscience can lash a man without noise:1 it can secretly inflict torments, when no eyes shall pity him.
1. Because the Conscience can lash a man without noise:1 it can secretly inflict torments, when no eies shall pity him.
- 1Aggravations of the misery of an ill Conscience.Aggrauations of the misery of an ill Conscience.
2. Because there is no escape from Conscience: a man can neither drive it away, nor run from it: it cleaves to the offender inseparably. From a tyrant or ill master, some men run away: but from an ill Conscience there is no fleeing.