A17384:3684
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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Tenthly, we must be patient, and endure the medicines, whether they be hard sayings, or afflictions. David prays to God to wash him, and to purge him with hyssop, and not spare, Psal. 51.
Tenthly, wee must bee patient, and indure the medicines, whether they bee hard sayings, or afflictions. Dauid praies to God to wash him, and to purge him with hysope, and not spare, Psal. 51.
Eleventhly, it is a great help to get our souls healed, to show mercy to the bodies of other men: God will not heal our souls, if we oppress other mens bodies; as we see in the case of oppressors in our times, Isaiah. 58.6, 7, 8.
Eleuenthly, it is a great help to get our soules healed, to shew mercy to the bodies of other men: God will not heale our soules, if we oppresse other mens bodies; as wee see in the case of oppressors in our times, Esay. 58.6, 7, 8.
Thirdly, since in Christ men may be healed, it gives us occasion to bewail the fearful carelessness of the most men, that will not seek cure, yea in places where the means is offered to cure them. All sorts of people are like Babylon for this confusion: she would not be cured, Jerem 51. Men refuse cure, and all comfort and advice, yea when they are warned of their diseases, they break out into more wilfulness and offending, as God said of Ephraim, When I would have healed Ephraim, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered,