A17384:3416
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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Eighthly, by telling the truth, of malice, 1. Sam. 22.9, 10.
Eightthly, by telling the truth, of malice, 1. Sam. 22.9, 10.
Ninthly, by boasting of a false gift, Pro. 27.1.
Tenthly, by hypocrisy and dissimulation, and that divers ways, as 1. When men speak fair to mens faces, but reproach them behind their backs,1 or flatter them merely, to catch them, and entangle them in their talk, as the Pharisees often tempted Christ. ⟨p. 816⟩2. That reproveth sin in others, and yet commits it himself, Rom. 2.19. 3. That colours sin, under pretence of Religion, Mark 12.40. 4. That professeth Religion in words, and yet denieth it in his heart. 5. That hideth his sin by denial, or excuses, to avoid shame and punishment. 6. That gives good words to men in affliction, but relieves them not, 1 Joh. 3.17, 18.
Tenthly, by hypocrisy and dissimulation, and that diuers waies, as 1. When men speake faire to mens faces, but reproach them behind their backs,