A17384:3478
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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First, it shows the woeful case of wicked men that forget God, and in the hardness of their hearts run on in sin, and so heap up wrath against the day of wrath, Rom. 2.4, 5.
First, it shewes the wofull case of wicked men that forget God, and in the hardnes of their hearts run on in sinne, and so heape vp wrath against the day of wrath, Rom. 2.4, 5.
Secondly, it should teach all men that have any care of themselves, to deny all ungodliness, and worldly lusts, and to live godly, and righteously, and soberly in this present world, Tit. 2.12, 13.
Secondly, it should teach all men that haue any care of themselues, to deny all vngodlines, and worldly lusts, and to liue godly, and righteously, and soberly in this present world, Tit. 2.12, 13.
Thirdly, it should be a singular comfort to all such as suffer wrongs and injuries in this world, whether in their names, or bodies, or states, or any way; let them but be patient, God will do them Justice, as these places show, 2. Thes. 1.5. Psal. 4.5. Jam. 5.6.7, 8