A17384:3581
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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Divers doctrines may be hence observed:
Diuers doctrines may bee hence obserued:
Doct. 1. First, that men truly mortified, shall live happily: These dead men will live, there is no danger in great sorrow, and the other works of mortification:1 It kills sin, but the soul lives by that means. He is sure to live, that is dead to his sins, Rō 8.13. Isaiah 26.19. 1. Pet. 4.6. Eze. 18. Ho. 14.2. The reasons are; First, because God hath promised comfort to such as mourn for sin, Math. 5.4. Pro. 14.10. Secondly, Christ hath a special charge given him to look to those mourners, that they miscarry not, Isaiah 61.1, 2, 3. Thirdly, they are freed from eternal death, they cannot be condemned, 1. Cor. 11.31, 32. Job 33.27, 28. Fourthly, because the fruit of the lips is peace to these, they are ever after interested in the comforts of the Word, Isaiah 57.15, 18. Fifthly, the nature of godly sorrow is only to tend to repentance. It is worldly sorrow that tends to death, 2. Cor. 7.10. Sixthly, they that are conformed to the similitude of Christs death by mortification, shall be conformed to Christs life by the resurrection from the dead.2
Doct. 1. First, that men truly mortified, shall liue happily: These dead men will liue, there is no danger in great sorrow, and the other works of mortification: