A17384:3724
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, the devil is the Arch-deceiver, he hath been a liar, and a murderer from the beginning, he deceived our first Parents, and made them and all their posterity go astray, John 8.44. 1. Tim. 2.14. and by him are all wicked men drawn out of the way, and led captive at his will, 2. Tim. 2.26.
First, the diuell is the Arch-deceiuer, hee hath beene a lier, and a murtherer from the beginning, hee deceiued our first Parents, and made them and all their posterity goe astray, Iohn 8.44. 1. Tim. 2.14. and by him are all wicked men drawne out of the way, and led captiue at his will, 2. Tim. 2.26.
Secondly, Antichrist is the next great deceiver, who by his sorceries made all nations in the time of the Gospel go astray, Eccles. 18.23. with his devilish doctrine, and by wicked sorceries he deceived the Christian world.
Secondly, Antichrist is the next great deceiuer, who by his sorceries made all nations in the time of the Gospel goe astray, Eccles. 18.23. with his diuellish doctrine, and by wicked sorceries hee deceiued the Christian world.
Thirdly, a swarm of wicked ministers have deceived whole towns and countries, and made the sheep go astray, even their whole flocks in many places, some of them, because they take the fleece, and never feed the flock,