A17384:361
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, of such Ministers as preach not sincerely: and such are they that preach for corrupt ends, though they preach true doctrine, Phil. 1.17; and they that preach obscurely & carelessly, and strive not to set out the glory of the truths they propound; and they that are like le•d Vintners, which mix the word with the errors of their own brains, or with the traditions of men, or with a manifest strife to bring in mans wisdom to Gods word; more desiring to show their own wits and learning, than the glory of the scriptures, 2. Cor. 4.2. and 1. Cor. 1.17, and 2.4.5.13.
First, of such Ministers as preach not sincerely: and such are they that preach for corrupt ends, though they preach true doctrine, Phil. 1.17; and they that preach obscurely & carelesly, and striue not to set out the glory of the truths they propound; and they that are like le•d Vintners, which mix the word with the errors of their owne brains, or with the traditions of men, or with a manifest strife to bring in mans wisdome to Gods word; more desiring to shewe their owne wittes and learning, than the glory of the scriptures, 2. Cor. 4.2. and 1. Cor. 1.17, and 2.4.5.13.
2. Of the people, for that great want of appetite to gods pure word, and the plain preaching of it.