A17384:3382
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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First,1 when a man invents and commits a sin never heard of before. Thus Onan made that sin of filthiness. Thus the Sodomites and Gentilish men and women made sins of lust. Thus drunkards make strange kinds of drinkings. Thus the fantastical monsters of our times make the sins of strange apparel. And thus the Papists make that horrible sin of murdering of Princes, and damnable equivocations. And thus swearers now make their monstrous oaths.
First,1 when a man inuents and commits a sinne neuer heard of before. Thus Onan made that sinne of filthinesse. Thus the Sodomites and Gentilish men and women made sinnes of lust. Thus drunkards make strange kindes of drinkings. Thus the phantasticall monsters of our times make the sinnes of strange apparell. And thus the Papists make that horrible sinne of murthering of Princes, and damnable equiuocations. And thus swearers now make their monstrous oaths.
- 1A man is said to make sin many ways.A man is said to make sin many waies.
Secondly, when a man sins, having not so much as temptation to sin in himself, or proneness of nature to sin: and so he sins, that sins wilfully, and not by infirmities, or weakness of nature. Thus Adam made the first sin: for, he had no corruption of nature to entice him, or incline him, nor could any temptation from without compel him; but he sinned wilfully. Thus those men of blood, make sin, that kill their brethren in cold blood. And so, many whoremongers and drunkards make sin, when they are not enticed, but entice themselves, and strive by all means to fire and force themselves to wickedness. And thus swearers, and usurers, and such like, make sin.
Secondly, when a man sins, hauing not so much as temptation to sinne in himself, or pronenesse of nature to sinne: and so hee sinnes, that sinnes wilfully, and not by infirmities, or weaknes of nature. Thus Adam made the first sinne: for, hee had no corruption of nature to intice him, or incline him, nor could any temptation from without compell him; but hee sinned wilfully. Thus those men of bloud, make sinne, that kill their brethren in colde bloud. And so, many whoremongers and drunkards make sinne, when they are not inticed, but intice themselues, and striue by all meanes to fire and force themselues to wickednes. And thus swearers, and vsurers, and such like, make sin.