A17384:3349
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. 6. Christs example is to be imitated by degrees. God doth not look we should follow the copy exactly at the first: which similitude imports a great deal of encouragement to the weak, but willing Christian, and withal shows the doubtful estate of such Christians, as in a short time and with little labour think they have learned the substance of all Christianity.
Doct. 6. Christs example is to bee imitated by degrees. God doth not looke we should follow the copy exactly at the first: which similitude imports a great deale of incouragement to the weak, but willing Christian, and withall shewes the doubtful estate of such Christians, as in a short time and with little labour think they haue learned the substance of all Christianity.
Doct. 7. In that he saith, Leaving us an example, it imports, that many good works tarry behind the godly in the world. For though it be true, that their works follow them to heaven, yet it is true also, they are left behind. They follow them to heaven, in respect of GODs remembrance and acknowledgement of them, and they tarry behind them, in respect of the example of them, and the praiseful memory of them amongst men. Welldoing ⟨p. 802⟩cannot be lost, which withal imports, that it is a great honour and comfort, when a man goes out of the world, to leave the memory and pattern of good works behind him: and it is a fearful thing for such men as go out of the world, to leave an ill report behind them, and die an example of evil doers: though those could leave a great estate in worldly things, yet are they most accursed, because they leave behind them such an ill sent and savour, by reason of their filthy, or vain, or worldly kind of living.
Doct. 7. In that hee saith, Leauing vs an example, it imports, that many good works tarry behind the godly in the world. For though it bee true, that their works follow them to heauen, yet it is true also, they are left behind. They follow them to heauen, in respect of GODs remembrance and acknowledgement of them, and they tarry behind them, in respect of the example of them, and the praisefull memory of them amongst men. Weldoing