A17384:3624
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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Thirdly, in some men the cause is, the lust after some particular wickedness of life, in which they live either secretly, or openly, which sin is the very Idol of their hearts, and hinders a good resolution.
Thirdly, in some men the cause is, the lust after some particular wickednes of life, in which they liue either secretly, or openly, which sinne is the very Idol of their hearts, and hinders a good resolution.
Fourthly, in some the cause is conceitedness; they are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not cleansed: they rest in the outward profession of religion, and the fear of godliness, and regard not ⟨p. 864⟩the sound power of it in their lives.
Fourthly, in some the cause is conceitednes; they are pure in their owne eies, and yet are not clensed: they rest in the outward profession of religion, and the feare of godlines, and regard not ⟨p. 864⟩the sound power of it in their liues.
Lastly, in all unregenerate men there are three causes, why they are not persuaded to a religious life: First, the one is the forgetfulness of their death: therefore their filthiness is still in their skirts, because they remember not their latter end, Lament. 1.9. Secondly, the other is, that they are dead in sin: What should hinder the conversion of multitudes at once, but that we preach to congregations of dead men? Thirdly, the devil works effectually in all the children of disobedience, striving to hide the Gospel from them, and the glory of a righteous life, that so they might perish,