A17384:3598
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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In the very infancy of the just man, even when God first changeth his heart, and cleanseth him, and raiseth him up to live righteously, there be divers things by which he may discern the truth of his sanctification▪ as,
In the very infancy of the iust man, euen when God first changeth his heart, and clenseth him, and raiseth him vp to liue righteously, there bee diuers things by which hee may discern the truth of his sanctification▪ as,
First, by the dissolving of the stoniness of his heart. When God comes effectually to cleanse a ⟨p. 858⟩man, he takes away the stony heart out of the body, and gives him a heart of flesh: he may feel his heart melt within him, especially when he stands before the Lord, when the Lord is fashioning of him for himself, by his Ordinances,