A17384:3430
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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Doct. 1. Reviling is a hateful sin: That appears from hence, that it is accounted a great suffering to suffer reviling. And our Saviour accounts it murder in his exposition upon the sixth Commandment, Mat. 5. and therefore bitter words are compared to arrows, and swords, which are instruments of murder: and reviling godly men, is termed blasphemy in sundry Scriptures in the original: It grows out of a bitter root, and is the very froth or scum of a naughty disposition or maliciousness, Heb. 12.14, 15. Jam. 1.21. It is a vice altogether contrary to the Spirit of God, which is a Spirit of meekness. And if a godly man suddenly fall into bitter words, it makes the holy Ghost stir within him, Ephes. 4.30. and evil words corrupt good manners, 1. Cor. 15. Thou losest so much of thy honesty, as thou usest of reviling.
Doct. 1. Reuiling is a hatefull sinne: That appeares from hence, that it is accounted a great suffring to suffer reuiling. And our Sauiour accounts it murther in his exposition vpon the sixt Commandement, Mat. 5. and therefore bitter words are compared to arrowes, and swordes, which are instruments of murther: and reuiling godly men, is tearmed blasphemy in sundry Scriptures in the originall: It growes out of a bitter roote, and is the very froth or scum of a naughty disposition or maliciousnes, Heb. 12.14, 15. Iam. 1.21. It is a vice altogether contrary to the Spirit of God, which is a Spirit of meekenes. And if a godly man suddenly fall into bitter words, it makes the holy Ghost stir within him, Ephes. 4.30. and euill words corrupt good manners, 1. Cor. 15