A17384:3240
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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Verse 20. For what glory is it, if when you be buffeted for your faults, you shall take it patiently? But if when you do well, and suffer for it, you take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Verse 20. For what glory is it, if when you bee buffeted for your faults, you shall take it patiently? But if when you doe well, and suffer for it, you take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Where the Apostle makes it good, that the best praise is, to suffer wrongfully. First, by affirming that it is no true glory for a man to suffer for his faults, and endure it. Secondly, by showing that to suffer patiently for well doing, is a thing very acceptable to God: That it is no true glory for a man to suffer for his faults, that he endure it ⟨p. 782⟩patiently, he expresseth in these words: What glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, you take it patiently?
WHere the Apostle makes it good, that the best praise is, to suffer wrongfully. First, by affirming that it is no true glory for a man to suffer for his faults, and endure it. Secondly, by shewing that to suffer patiently for well doing, is a thing verie acceptable to God: That it is no true glory for a man to suffer for his faults, that he endure it ⟨p. 782⟩patiently, hee expresseth in these words: What glory is it, if, when yee bee buffeted for your faults, you take it patiently?
Out of which words divers doctrines may be briefly noted.