A17384:3241
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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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.
Out of which words diuers doctrines may bee briefly noted.
Doct. 1. First, that men of all sorts do naturally affect glory, or praise, or reputation, and are guided by it in their actions or sufferings, even the meanest sort of men set before themselves something, which they glory in, and according to which they order themselves, as here servants, even of the worst sort too, yea, such as are faulty, & so disliked, and corrected, yet will not be without something to glory in: and that is, as is here supposed to be, their patience in abiding blows. And this ariseth in man, partly out of corruption of nature and pride, that seeks to cover their faults with some thing they account to be of praise, and partly out of the force of some remainder of goodness in their natures, that are not destitute of all desire of virtuous actions.