A17384:3552
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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But, in general of all that live in sin, it is manifestly here implied, that they have no part in Christ: Christ, in respect of them, and as they are in their present condition, died in vain.
But, in generall of all that liue in sinne, it is manifestly heer implied, that they haue no part in Christ: Christ, in respect of them, and as they are in their present condition, died in vain.
Use. The consideration whereof should awaken men from that heavy sleep in sin, unto an earnest care to live righteously: it should warn men every where to repent, Eph. 5.14. and the rather, because this very patience of God, in bearing thus long with them, and the mercy offered them in the Gospel, will increase to greater wrath and condemnation, if men will not be warned, Rom. 2.4, 5. 2. Thes. 1.8, 9.
Vse. The consideration whereof should awaken men from that heauy sleep in sinne, vnto an earnest care to liue righteously: it should warn men euery where to repent, Eph. 5.14. and the rather, because this very patience of God, in bearing thus long with them, and the mercy offred them in the Gospell, will increase to greater wrath and condemnation, if men will not be warned, Rom. 2.4, 5. 2. Thes. 1.8, 9.