A17384:3388
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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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⟩euill good; when a man makes that to bee a sinne, which is no sinne. Thus they make sinne, that call those things sinne, which GOD by his Law neuer called sinne. And thus men make sinne, both out of superstition on the left hand, and out of rash zeale on the right hand. Thus also prophane persons make godlines and a holy conuersation to bee Schismes, and truth to bee Heresy: Thus the Iewes called Pauls religious course, Heresy: when hee 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. Esay 5.20. Thus Lawyers many times make sinnes, when they make a good cause bad, and a bad cause good.
Eighthly, when a man by slander casts foul aspersions upon other men that are innocent, speaking evil with any manner of evil report of such, as live religiously. And this art of making sin, the slanderer learned of the devil, that accuser of the brethren. Thus many godly persons are many times by wicked reports made gross offenders in the common acceptation of the world, and in the rumours spread abroad of them in many places. Thus they made Christ and the Apostles grievous sinners, and a spectacle to men and Angels.