A17384:3421
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Doct. 1. Guile in words is a vice, that wonderfully dishonours a man: It was a fault would give great advantage to the enemies of the truth. As it is a sin, which is in a special manner hateful to God, Psal. 5.7. so it is shameful amongst men: and therefore as any man would enjoy good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips, that they speak no guile, Psal. 34.13.
Doct. 1. Guile in words is a vice, that wonderfully dishonours a man: It was a fault would giue great aduantage to the enemies of the truth. As it is a sinne, which is in a speciall manner hatefull to God, Psal. 5.7. so it is shamefull amongst men: and therefore as any man would enioy good daies, let him refraine his tongue from euill, and his lips, that they speake no guile, Psal. 34.13.
Doct. 2. When he saith, that They found no guile in his mouth; it imports, that they sought it. And so we learn, that the godly are so hated of the wicked, that they seek occasion against them: when they see not, or hear not of any faults in them, they search, and inquire, and lie in wait to see, if they can catch their foot-slippings at any time: yea they mark their words, to see whether they can find any falsehood, or hurt in them. And therefore Christians should watch themselves, ⟨p. 817⟩and their words the more carefully, and strive so much the more to show themselves plain men in their words and dealing, that they may speak what they think at all times.
Doct. 2. When hee saith, that They found no guile in his mouth; it importes, that they sought it. And so wee learne, that the godly are so hated of the wicked, that they seeke occasion against them: when they see not, or heare not of any faults in them, they search, and inquire, and lie in waite to see, if they can catch their foot-slippings at any time: yea they mark their words, to see whether they can finde any falshood, or hurt in them. And therefore Christians should watch themselues,