A17384:3427
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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Hitherto hath been showed, that Christ suffered without sin: now the Apostle shows, that he suffered without reviling, or threatening, which praise is increased in this, that he reviled not when he was reviled; nor threatened at the very time, when he suffered extreme injuries.
Hitherto hath beene shewed, that Christ suffered without sinne: now the Apostle shewes, that hee suffered without reuiling, or threatning, which praise is increased in this, that hee reuiled not when hee was reuiled; nor threatned at the very time, when hee suffered extreme iniuries.
1Reviling is a sin condemned in the sixth commandment, and is committed by bitter and disgraceful words against any other without desire of doing good: And so men revile, when they disgrace others by false accusations, as when they called Christ a deceiver, and said he had a devil, or was a glutton, or an enemy to Caesar, or a blasphemer, or the like. Again: It is reviling, when the very terms used, are base & ignominious, if they be used only out of passion: as to call men, made after the image of God, by the names of beasts, or the like. Again, when we upbraid others with such deformities, or infirmities as God hath laid upon them; as to mock a man for his deafness, or lameness or ill sight, or the like, Leu. 19.14. Besides, when men reproach others with such words for any thing they fail in, as express more disgrace, then the fault deserves; as for some mistaking to call a man, fool, Math. 5. yea it is reviling, when the faults of others are charged upon them without a calling, or desire of their amendment: And so it is reviling, to upbraid any with the sins they have repented of.
1Reuiling is a sinne condemned in the sixt commandement, and is committed by bitter and disgracefull words against any other without desire of doing good: And so men reuile, when they disgrace others by false accusations, as when they called Christ a deceiuer, and said hee had a diuell, or was a glutton, or an enemy to Caesar, or a blasphemer, or the like. Againe: It is reuiling, when the very tearmes vsed, are base & ignominious, if they be vsed onely out of passion: as to call men, made after the image of God, by the names of beasts, or the like. Againe, when wee vpbraid others with such deformities, or infirmities as God hath laid vpon them; as to mock a man for his deafenes, or lameness or ill sight, or the like,