A17384:3206
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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5. Because death it self doth not abate the torments of an evil Conscience: but the living worm gnaws them even in hell for ever, and with so much strength and power there, that one said wittily, Hell were not hell, if it were not for the gnawing ⟨p. 772⟩of this never-dying and never-ceasing worm.
5. Because death it self doth not abate the torments of an euill Conscience: but the liuing worm gnawes them euen in hell for euer, and with so much strength and power there, that one said wittily, Hell were not hell, if it were not for the gnawing ⟨p. 772⟩of this neuer-dying and neuer-ceasing worme.
6. Because unto the making up of the complete misery of the impenitent sinner, the Sentence of Conscience, and the testimony of it shall be heard & admitted at the last day before the Tribunal of Christ. For though an evil conscience shall never disgrace for some effects, as for that of working despair of mercy: yet for the main body of the proceedings of Conscience, it shall be not only allowed, but justified by the voice of Christ, to the eternal shame and confusion of the offender.
6. Because vnto the making vp of the compleat misery of the impenitent sinner, the Sentence of Conscience, and the testimony of it shall be heard & admitted at the last day before the Tribunal of Christ. For thogh an euil conscience shall neuer disgrace for some effects, as for that of working despaire of mercy: yet for the maine body of the proceedings of Conscience, it shal be not only allowed, but iustified by the voice of Christ, to the eternall shame and confusion of the offendor.