A17384:3533
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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Fourthly, in respect of sin: and so men either are dead for sin, as malefactors; or dead in sin, as all wicked men; or dead to sin, as the godly here. To take the soul from the body, is the death of all men. To take GOD from the soul, is the death of all wicked men. To take sin from the soul, is the death of all godly men. To be dead to sin then, is to be mortified in respect of sin.
Fourthly, in respect of sinne: and so men either are dead for sinne, as malefactors; or dead in sinne, as all wicked men; or dead to sinne, as the godly heer. To take the soule from the body, is the death of all men. To take GOD from the soule, is the death of all wicked men. To take sinne from the soule, is the death of all godly men. To bee dead to sinne then, is to be mortified in respect of sinne.
Sin is said to be dead, either in appearance or in deed. In appearance only, it is dead in such as have their sins only restrained for a time, either by God's own strong hand, or else by themselves kept down for certain hypocritical ends, or else for want of occasion or temptation to stir the sin: thus sin was dead in Paul, when he was unregenerate, and revived when the Law came, Rom. 7.9. Sin is dead in deed in godly men, but with a difference: for, though in this life they be wholly rid of many sins, yet some corruptions are not wholly removed; yet are they dead to them in the inchoation of it, their sins lie a-dying: but in the life to-come they shall be wholly and fully delivered from all sin.
Sinne is said to be dead, either in appearance or in deed. In appearance onely, it is dead in such as haue their sinnes onely restrained for a time, either by God's owne strong hand, or else by themselues kept downe for certain hypocriticall ends, or else for want of occasion or temptation to stir the sin: thus sinne was dead in Paul, when hee was vnregenerate, and reuiued when the Law came, Rom. 7.9. Sinne is dead in deed in godly men, but with a difference: for, though in this life they bee wholly rid of many sinnes, yet some corruptions are not wholly remoued; yet are they dead to them in the inchoation of it, their sins lie a-dying: but in the life to-come they shall be wholly and fully deliuered from all sin.