A17384:3636
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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Ninthly, he must keep his heart with all diligence: For thereout cometh life: He must carefully resist the beginnings of sin within, and avoid those secret and spiritual dalliances of the soul with inward corruptions and temptations, and withal take heed of secret hypocrisy, in suffering his heart to be absent, when God is to be served, Pro. 4.23. For thereby he may lose what he worketh, if his spirit be not without that guile.
Ninthly, hee must keepe his heart with all diligence: For thereout commeth life: Hee must carefully resist the beginnings of sinne within, and auoid those secret and spirituall dalliances of the soule with inward corruptions and temptations, and withall take heed of secret hypocrisy, in suffering his heart to bee absent, when God is to bee serued, Pro. 4.23. For thereby he may lose what he worketh, if his spirit bee not without that guile.
Tenthly, all that know the happiness of a righteous life, should strive to amend those defects, which are found even in the better sort of people, that so their life at length may answer to the end of Christs death: and therefore we should ⟨p. 868⟩examine our selves throughly.
Tenthly, all that knowe the happines of a righteous life, should striue to amend those defects, which are found euen in the better sort of people, that so their life at length may answer to the end of Christs death: and therefore wee should ⟨p. 868⟩examine our selues throughly.