A17384:3672
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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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.1 Adam hath inflicted all his posterity: and every man hath increased the diseases of his nature, by his own wilful transgressions. Now, sin is called sickness, because it doth work that upon the soul, which sickness doth upon the body: for, sin hath weakened the strength of the soul in all the faculties of it; which all men may discern and observe in themselves by nature. Besides, it causeth spottedness and deformity in the soul, as sickness doth in the body: and therefore sin was likened to the leprosy in the Law. Further, it often causeth pain and torment in the soul, as wounds & diseases do in the body: for, there is no peace to the wicked, especially when God fighteth against them with his terrors. Besides, it will cause the death of the soul, as sickness will of the body, if it be not helped: and so men are said to be dead in sins.