A17384:3286
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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Doct. 5. To suffer for welldoing patiently, is wonderful glorious, and acceptable before God.
Doct. 5. To suffer for weldoing patiently, is wonderfull glorious, and acceptable before God.
Doct. 6. Many things may be gracious with men, that are no whit regarded with God.
Doct. 6. Many things may bee gracious with men, that are no whit regarded with God.
Doct. 7. To suffer for welldoing, when it is not patiently taken, is not thank-worthy with GOD: though the cause men suffer for, be good, yet they lose their praise, when they use ill means to be delivered, or carry themselves impatiently.
Doct. 7. To suffer for weldoing, when it is not patiently taken, is not thank-worthy with GOD: though the cause men suffer for, be good, yet they lose their praise, when they vse ill meanes to bee deliuered, or carry themselues impatiently.
Doct. 8. To know that God favours us, or accepts of what we do, will make a man endure strange things; as here servants, that were used many times little better then beasts, yet endure