A17384:3629
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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Secondly, He must redeem time: He must ⟨p. 865⟩buy time from his worldly occasions, and settle such an order in his worldly estate, or outward estate, that he may provide to serve the Lord without distraction, abstaining from all things, that may entangle him, or interrupt him, Eph. 5.16. 1. Cor. 7.29, 35. and 9.28. 2. Tim. 2.4. He must provide to him time for God's service, and for commerce and fellowship with the godly, and for works of mercy.
Secondly, Hee must redeeme time: Hee must ⟨p. 865⟩buy time from his worldly occasions, and settle such an order in his worldly estate, or outward estate, that he may prouide to serue the Lord without distraction, abstayning from all things, that may entangle him, or interrupt him, Eph. 5.16. 1. Cor. 7.29, 35. and 9.28. 2. Tim. 2.4. Hee must prouide to him time for God's seruice, and for commerce and fellowship with the godly, and for works of mercy.
Thirdly, he must be wise for himself: that is, he must in all the means he useth for or in religion, especially apply, what he can, for his own use and study himself, and to understand his own way, and provide, whatsoever he do, for his justification, and sanctification, and final salvation, Pro. 9.12