A17384:3539
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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3. Because they account sin to be the life of their lives: they could not esteem life, but for the hope of liberty and power of sinning. It were a death to them to live restrained of sin, as appears, when either by punishment, or for other ends, they are found to cease sinning.
3. Because they account sinne to bee the life of their liues: they could not esteem life, but for the hope of liberty and power of sinning. It were a death to them to liue restrained of sinne, as appeares, when either by punishment, or for other ends, they are found to cease sinning.
4. Because they do not destroy sin, in letting it live: they are guilty of the life of sin in them, because they will not use the means to subdue and mortify sin that dwells in them, but let it alone unresisted.
4. Because they doo not destroy sinne, in letting it liue: they are guilty of the life of sinne in them, because they will not vse the meanes to subdue and mortifie sin that dwels in them, but let it alone vnresisted.