A17384:3621
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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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 Mat. 13. Or else they understand not with application to themselves, but think only how the doctrine may fit others, Luke 13.1, 2. Or else they meet with some hard condition that they are not willing to observe, as the rich young Pharisee did; or some other harsh doctrine, as they account it: which doth so vex and offend them, that they fall clean off from the respect of Christ and holiness; as, John 6.59, 66. Or else they have some vile opinions, that let them in the time of hearing; as, to think, that one is not bound to do as the rules of Scripture do require; or that, if one be not a gross offender, God will not impute less faults; contrary to our Saviour's doctrine, Mat. 5.18, 19, 20. Or else their hearts break, that is, they let the doctrine run out, and never think of it when they ⟨p. 863⟩are gotten out of the Church, Heb. 2.1. Or else they have resisted the light of the truth so long, that God hath now delivered them over to a spirit of slumber, lest they should convert, and he should heal them, Math. 13.15, 16