A17384:3387
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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Sixthly, when a man makes a trade of sinning: and thus men are said in Scripture to be workers of iniquity, which is a Periphrasis of wicked men. Now he that is said to make a trade of sin, or to be a worker of iniquity; first, is one that makes it his daily custom to follow his sinful course of life, or that follows sin, as the trades-man doth his trade. Secondly that cannot live without his sin, that accounts his sin the life of his life, that had as lief be dead, as restrained of his sin: as the trades-man accounts himself undone, if his trade be destroyed.
Sixtly, when a man makes a trade of sinning: and thus men are said in Scripture to bee workers of iniquity, which is a Periphrasis of wicked men. Now hee that is said to make a trade of sinne, or to bee a worker of iniquity; first, is one that makes it his dayly custome to follow his sinfull course of life, or that followes sinne, as the trades-man doth his trade. Secondly that cannot liue without his sinne, that accounts his sinne the life of his life, that had as liefe be dead, as restrayned of his sinne: as the trades-man accounts himselfe vndone, if his trade bee destroyed.
Seventhly, when a man calls good evil, and ⟨p. 811⟩evil good; when a man makes that to be a sin, which is no sin. Thus they make sin, that call those things sin, which GOD by his Law never called sin. And thus men make sin, both out of superstition on the left hand, and out of rash zeal on the right hand. Thus also profane persons make godliness and a holy conversation to be Schisms, and truth to be Heresy: Thus the Jews called Pauls religious course, Heresy: when he by that way, which they called Heresy, worshipped the God of his fathers: and the Professors of Christian Religion they called a sect, Acts 28. Isaiah 5.20. Thus Lawyers many times make sins, when they make a good cause bad, and a bad cause good.
Seuenthly, when a man calles good euill, and ⟨p. 811⟩