A17384:3662
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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Fifthly, men are strangely negligent in the growth of grace and knowledge: men stand still, and do not prosper, and strive to increase in every good gift, as they ought, 2. Peter 3.18. Many graces are not strengthened, and many works are not finished.
Fiftly, men are strangely negligent in the growth of grace and knowledge: men stand still, and doo not prosper, and striue to increase in euery good gift, as they ought, 2. Peter 3.18. Many graces are not strengthned, and many works are not finished.
Secondly, in mens affections to God, how are men defective! Where is he that loves the Lord with all his hart, and all his might, and all his soul? Deut. 30.6. and 6.3.
Secondly, in mens affections to God, how are men defectiue! Where is hee that loues the Lord with all his hart, and all his might, and all his soule? Deut. 30.6. and 6.3.
Thirdly, in God's worship, these things are in many wanting.