A17384:3671
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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And first, as this healing is referred to the soul, divers doctrines may be observed.
And first, as this healing is referred to the soule, diuers doctrines may be obserued.
Doct. 1. The souls of all men are diseased by nature; even the very souls of the Elect are so, till they be healed by Christ. The soul is diseased divers ways, especially by sorrows and sins: it is the disease by sin, is here meant.
Doct. 1. The soules of all men are diseased by nature; euen the very soules of the Elect are so, till they be healed by Christ. The soule is diseased diuers waies, especially by sorrows and sins: it is the disease by sin, is heer meant.
Quest. It would be inquired, how the soul comes to be sick of these diseases, and why sin is called sickness in the soul.
Quest. It would bee inquired, how the soule comes to be sick of these diseases, and why sinne is called sicknes in the soule.
Ans. This spiritual sickness comes into the soul by propagation.