A17384:3465
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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Again, if God be Judge, it is comfortable to penitent sinners:1 First, because repentance will alter the judgement, if it be after the fact, and before the Sentence, even in such offences as deserve everlasting death, as appeareth in the case of David and the Ninevites, and is notified to the world, Acts 17.31. Whereas earthly Judges must proceed in their judgement, whether the parties be penitent or no. Again, it is the more comfortable, that God is Judge, because all parties wronged or grieved may have access to God, and put up their supplications at any time; he is ready to be found, and willing to hear: which is seldom true of ⟨p. 814⟩earthly Judges. Thirdly, because godly men know their sentence already, God hath acquitted them by his Word, and by his Son and by his Spirit, and therefore they need not fear his last judgement.
Again, if God bee Iudge, it is comfortable to penitent sinners:1 First, because repentance will alter the iudgement, if it be after the fact, and before the Sentence, euen in such offenses as deserue euerlasting death, as appeareth in the case of Dauid and the Niniuites, and is notified to the world, Acts 17.31. Whereas earthly Iudges must proceed in their iudgement, whether the parties bee penitent or no. Again, it is the more comfortable, that God is Iudge, because all parties wronged or grieued may haue accesse to God, and put vp their supplications at any time; he is ready to be found, and willing to heare: which is seldome true of ⟨p. 814⟩earthly Iudges. Thirdly, because godly men know their sentence already, God hath acquitted them by his Word, and by his Son and by his Spirit, and therefore they need not feare his last iudgement.
- 1But comfortable to godly men.