A17384:3600
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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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, Ezech. 36.25, 26. He hath a new heart, that hath not a stony heart.
First, by the dissoluing of the stoninesse of his heart. When God comes effectually to clense a ⟨p. 858⟩man, hee takes away the stony heart out of the body, and giues him a heart of flesh: he may feele his heart melt within him, especially when hee stands before the Lord, when the Lord is fashioning of him for himself, by his Ordinances, Ezech. 36.25, 26. Hee hath a new heart, that hath not a stony heart.
Secondly, by the rising of the day star in his heart. The Father of lights, when he reneweth the heart of a man, causeth a sudden & heavenly light, as it were a star, to shine in the understanding; by virtue of which, men see more into the mysteries of Religion in that first moment, than they did all the days of their life before. This is that new spirit the Prophet speaks of: He that sate in darkness before, now sees a great light; he sees and wonders at divine things in Religion: whereas before, he was a sot, and understood nothing with any power or life; and by the comforts of this light, he can hear as the Learned; understands doctrine in a moment, which before was altogether harsh and dark unto him, 2. Peter 1.19. Ezekiel 36.28