A17384:3404
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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Fourthly, is it not hence also most manifest, that impenitent sinners shall not be spared, or pitied of God? Did not God spare his own Son that never offended in all his life? and shall he spare them, that never left offending of him? Oh what madness hath besotted men so, as with stubborn wilfulness still to trust upon an unknown mercy in God, yea such a mercy, as God could never conceive in the case of his Son, that was not to him, as they are, in any respect! Were these men but throughly beaten from this sinful plea of mercy in God, they would repent of their sins in time, and seek true mercy from God, which never is withheld from penitent sinners.
Fourthly, is it not hence also most manifest, that impenitent sinners shall not bee spared, or pitied of God? Did not God spare his owne Sonne that neuer offended in all his life? and shall hee spare them, that neuer left offending of him? Oh what madnes hath besotted men so, as with stubborn wilfulnesse still to trust vpon an vnknowne mercy in God, yea such a mercy, as God could neuer conceiue in the case of his Sonne, that was not to him, as they are, in any respect! Were these men but throughly beaten from this sinfull plea of mercy in God, they would repent of their sinnes in time, and seeke true mercy from God, which neuer is withheld from penitent sinners.
Lastly, Did our Saviour Christ suffer so patiently such extreme things, that never deserved any evil in himself? What a shame is it for us to be so unquiet, and dejected, or so froward, or so unsettled, when any crosses or affliction fall upon us, who yet have deserved at Gods hands to suffer a ⟨p. 815⟩thousand times more, and worse things then those that do befall us?
Lastly, Did our Sauiour Christ suffer so patiently such extreme things, that neuer deserued any euill in himself? What a shame is it for vs to be so vnquiet, and deiected, or so froward, or so vnsettled, when any crosses or affliction fall vpon vs, who yet haue deserued at Gods hands to suffer a ⟨p. 815⟩