A17384:3216
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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First, doth incline a man to do good duties, not by compulsion; but, a man shall find, that he doth them by force of an internal principle in himself.
First, doth incline a man to doo good duties, not by compulsion; but, a man shall finde, that he doth them by force of an internall principle in himself.
Secondly, it cannot abide dead works: a good Conscience abhors all cold, and careless, or lukewarm, or counterfeit serving of God: it puts life into all good duties:1 it exacteth attendance upon God in doing them, Heb. 9.14.
Secondly, it cannot abide dead works: a good Conscience abhorres all cold, and careless, or lukewarm, or counterfet seruing of God: it puts life into all good duties:1 it exacteth attendance vpon God in doing them, Heb. 9.14.
Thirdly, it more respecteth GOD, than all the world, or the man himself; and therefore will compel a man to obey against profit, and pleasure, and liking of the world, 2. Cor. 1.12