A17384:3603
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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Fourthly, by his estimation of righteousness in others: he honours them that fear the Lord, as the only Noble Ones: all his delight is in them, and he loves them, and longs after them for righteousness sake.
Fourthly, by his estimation of righteousnes in others: he honours them that fear the Lord, as the onely Noble Ones: all his delight is in them, and he loues them, and longs after them for righteousnes sake.
Fifthly, by the covenant he makes in his heart about righteousness: he not only consents to obey, Isaiah 1.19. but hires himself as a servant to righteousness; resolving to live to righteousness, and spend not an hour in a day, but a life in the service of righteousness, Rom. 6.13, 18.
Fiftly, by the couenant he makes in his heart about righteousnes: he not onely consents to obey, Esay 1.19. but hires himself as a seruant to righteousnes; resoluing to liue to righteousnes, and spend not an houre in a day, but a life in the seruice of righteousnes, Rom. 6.13, 18.
And as the righteous man grows more strong, and better acquainted with God and his Ordinances, and the works of righteousness, other signs break-out upon him, which do infallibly prove the happiness of his condition; such as are,
And as the righteous man growes more strong, and better acquainted with God and his Ordinances, and the works of righteousnes, other signes break-out vpon him, which doo infallibly prooue the happinesse of his condition; such as are,