A17384:3619
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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Use 2. Secondly, the excellent living of such as live righteously, may greatly reprove such as cannot be stirred with these things to a conscionable care of forsaking their sins, and of living righteously.
Vse 2. Secondly, the excellent liuing of such as liue righteously, may greatly reproue such as cannot bee stirred with these things to a conscionable care of forsaking their sinnes, and of liuing righteously.
Quest. What should be the cause, that such men as hear so much of the excellent estate of righteous men, are not persuaded to convert, and embrace that kind of life?
Quest. What should be the cause, that such men as heare so much of the excellent estate of righteous men, are not perswaded to conuert, and embrace that kinde of life?
Ans. The cause is diverse in divers men: as,
Ans. The cause is diuerse in diuers men: as,
1First, in some it is long of certain corruptions, that discover themselves about the hearing of the doctrine of righteousness: for, either mens hearts are like a beaten path in the high-way, that the sound of doctrine cannot enter into their understanding