A17384:3541
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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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.
5. Because they have most life, or are most lively, when they have most liberty to sin.
5. Because they haue most life, or are most liuely, when they haue most liberty to sin.
6. Because they continue in sin: they spend not an hour, but it is in sin: yea, they so sin now, that they desire to spend everlasting life in sin.
6. Because they continue in sin: they spend not an houre, but it is in sinne: yea, they so sinne now, that they desire to spend euerlasting life in sinne.