A17384:3213
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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Thus of the means, how Conscience may be made good: the signs of a good conscience follow.
Thus of the meanes, how Conscience may bee made good: the signes of a good cōscience follow.
1First, by the opposition it makes against the remainders of sin in the godly. It maintains a constant combating against the law of the members, having at command the law of the mind. It doth not only resist gross evils, but even the most secret corruptions in the heart of man. This, Paul discerned in himself, Rom. 7. of doing God service.
1First, by the opposition it makes against the remainders of sinne in the godly. It maintains a constant combating against the law of the members, hauing at command the law of the minde. It doth not onely resist grosse euils, but euen the most secret corruptions in the heart of man. This, Paul discerned in himself, Rom. 7. of doing God seruice.
- 1Signs of a good Conscience.Signes of a good Conscience.
Secondly, by the manner of exacting of obedience: for, a good Conscience,