A17384:322
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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Question. How comes it to pass, that the most Christians live still but as weak ones and babes in Christ? especially why thrive they not ⟨p. 67⟩according to their time of their age in Christ?
Question. How comes it to passe, that the most Christians liue still but as weak ones and babes in Christ? especially why thriue they not ⟨p. 67⟩according to their time of their age in Christ?
Answer. In nature a child gets out of his childhood, as his years grow upon him, but in religion and grace it is not so: It is not time brings any of necessity out of the cradle of Religion. Now the cause why the most are but babes,1 and that after a long time, may be such or some of these.
Answer. In nature a child gets out of his childhood, as his yeares grow vpon him, but in religion and grace it is not so: It is not time brings any of necessity out of the cradle of Religion. Now the cause why the most are but babes,1 and that after a long time, may bee such or some of these.
- 1The causes why the most are but babes in religion.
First, some as soon as they are borne, are destitute of the breast, have no nurse, are taken away from the means, and deprived of the powerful preaching of the word, which did beget them unto God. This comes to pass sometimes by the violence of others, or by the afflicting hand of God upon their bodies, or sometimes by their own carelessness, that for worldly respects remove to places where they have not the means to build them up.