A17384:3220
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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Fifthly, a good Conscience doth require obedience always: Thus Paul pleads, I have served God till this day. It doth not command for God by fits, but constantly, Act. 23.1.
Fiftly, a good Conscience doth require obedience alwayes: Thus Paul pleades, I haue serued God till this day. It doth not command for God by fits, but constantly, Act. 23.1.
A third sign is, that a good Conscience is always toward God, it still desires to be before God, it seeks God's presence, it reckons that day to be lost, and that it did not live (as it were) when it found not the Lord, or had no fellowship or conversation with God. A good Conscience is like a good Angel, it is always looking into the face of God, Act. 23.1.
A third signe is, that a good Conscience is alwaies toward God, it still desires to bee before God, it seekes God's presence, it reckons that day to be lost, and that it did not liue (as it were) when it found not the Lord, or had no fellowship or conuersation with God. A good Conscience is like a good Angell, it is alwaies looking into the face of God, Act. 23.1.
Thus of the signs.
Thus of the signes.