A17384:33
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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1. These sins make wicked men many times to set themselves against the word,1 and to strive to suppress the liberty of the word.
1. These sinnes make wicked men many times to set themselues against the word,1 and to striue to suppresse the liberty of the word.
- 1How many ways the sins here-mentioned do hinder the word.How many waies the sinnes heer-mentioned do hinder the word.
2. These sins hinder the word, in that they hinder many times other men from the love of the word. The word is not glorified, yea, it is evil-spoken of, and why? Do not many men and women say they like not this going to Sermons, &c? for, they see, that such persons can live in malice and deceit, and envy one another, &c.
2. These sins hinder the word, in that they hinder many times other men from the loue of the word. The word is not glorified, yea, it is euill-spoken of, and why? Do not many men and women say they like not this going to Sermons, &c? for, they see, that such persons can liue in malice and deceit, and enuy one another, &c.
3. These sins hinder the Ministers from discerning the work of their Ministry in their hearers. Paul cannot see or judge, that the Corinthians are any more than carnal, or at the best but babes in Christ, because there was so much envy and strife, and division among them,