A17384:3530
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, in respect of nature, when the Frame of nature is dissolved, by the parting of the soul from the body.
First, in respect of nature, when the Frame of nature is dissolued, by the parting of the soule from the body.
Secondly, in respect of God, when God is departed from men with his grace, and righteousness, and favour: thus wicked men are spiritually dead, Eph. 2.1. and 4.17. 1. Tim. 5.6.
Secondly, in respect of God, when God is departed from men with his grace, and righteousnes, and fauour: thus wicked men are spiritually dead, Eph. 2.1. and 4.17. 1. Tim. 5.6.
Thirdly, in respect of the world: when a man is overwhelmed with crosses, especially such as are joined with disgrace in his reputation; he is said to be dead, and his life to be hid under those afflictions, ⟨p. 839⟩being despised and forgotten as a dead man out of mind, Col. 3.3. Isaiah 26.19.