A17384:371
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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First, for the first: Christians are bound not only to get grace, but they must labour to increase in the gifts they have received: It is not enough to begin the work of God, but we must labour to abound in it, and increase in well doing, we must go on, and finish the measure of the work required of us. These places evidently prove, that God looks for growth at our hands. 2. Pet. 3.18. 1. Cor. 15.58. 1. Thes. 4.1. Prou. 4.18. 1. Cor. 14.12.
First, for the first: Christians are bound not onely to get grace, but they must labour to encrease in the gifts they haue receiued: It is not enough to begin the work of God, but wee must labour to abound in it, and increase in well doing, we must goe on, and finish the measure of the work required of vs. These places euidently proue, that God lookes for growth at our hands. 2. Pet. 3.18. 1. Cor. 15.58. 1. Thes. 4.1. Prou. 4.18. 1. Cor. 14.12.
1Secondly, for the second: before I number particulars, I might tell you of divers kinds of growth, or increase in the kingdom of Christ. Christ himself is said to increase,