A17384:3543
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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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.
Use. And so from hence, by way of use, men may discern whether they live in sin or not: for, he that is a servant to his corruptions, and esteemeth them as the happiness of his life, and resists them not, and hath a desire to sin ever, is (without doubt) alive in sin, and dead to righteousness. And so contrariwise, where these things cannot be found, there the person is not alive to sin.
Vse. And so from hence, by way of vse, men may discern whether they liue in sinne or not: for, hee that is a seruant to his corruptions, and esteemeth them as the happinesse of his life, and resists them not, and hath a desire to sinne euer, is (without doubt) aliue in sinne, and dead to righteousnes. And so contrariwise, where these things cannot be found, there the person is not aliue to sin.
Doct. 2. Hence is implied also, that to live in sin, ⟨p. 841⟩is but miserable living: and therefore those whom God loveth, he changeth from that condition, and maketh them die to sin. Now, this may be showed out of other Scriptures briefly: for,
Doct. 2. Hence is implied also, that to liue in sin, ⟨p. 841⟩