A17384:3551
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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And in a special manner it is a miserable living, to be lively and jovial (as they call it) in sin: such men are worse than the general sort of sinners; for, these wretched men, that are so lively in sin, have a most miserable heart in them, a heart like an Adamant, like a very stone within them, are senseless and brutish like the very beasts that perish, Psal. 49. ult. Besides, in many of these God scourgeth sin with sin, and giveth them up to such a reprobate mind, that their wickedness oftentimes exceeds the wickedness of the wicked, Jer. 5. Rom. 1.26, 28. And further, many times strange punishments light upon those workers of iniquity, Job 31.3. To which may be added, that oftentimes such wretched creatures conclude in most woeful and hellish terrors; so as they howl for vexation of heart, while God's servants sing for joy of hart, Isaiah 65.13, 14. Reu. 6.15, 16.
And in a speciall manner it is a miserable liuing, to be liuely and iouiall (as they call it) in sin: such men are worse than the generall sort of sinners; for, these wretched men, that are so liuely in sin, haue a most miserable heart in them, a heart like an Adamant, like a very stone within them, are senselesse and brutish like the very beasts that perish, Psal. 49. vlt. Besides, in many of these God scourgeth sinne with sinne, and giueth them vp to such a reprobate minde, that their wickednes oftentimes exceeds the wickednes of the wicked, Ier. 5. Rom. 1.26, 28. And further, many times strange punishments light vpon those workers of iniquity, Iob 31.3. To which may bee added, that oftentimes such wretched creatures conclude in most wofull and hellish terrors; so as they howle for vexation of heart, while God's seruants sing for ioy of hart, Esay 65.13, 14.