A commentary

Name: A commentary
Author: Nicholas Byfield

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.

Nicholas Byfield 1579–1622London: printed by Humphrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623London: printed by Humfrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623

[16], 922, [6] p. · 245k words · STC 4211 · ESTC S107078

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AN EXPOSITION of the Second Chapter of the first Epistle general o… › Verse 2. As new borne babes desire the sincere milk of the word, th…: Verse 2. As new borne babes desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.AN EXPOSITION of the Second Chapter of the first Epistle generall o… › Verse 2. As new borne babes desire the sincere milk of the word, th…: Verse 2. As new borne babes desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.

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Eleventhly, The other grace we should grow in, there mentioned, is the love to our teachers: as God abounds towards us in the profit of their pains, so we should grow in affection to them, till we get that singular love of them, which the Apostle speaketh of, 1. Thes. 5.

Eleuenthly, The other grace we should grow in, there mentioned, is the loue to our teachers: as God abounds towards vs in the profit of their paines, so we should grow in affection to them, till we get that singular loue of them, which the Apostle speaketh of, 1. Thes. 5.

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Twelfthly, Now there is one thing more, which being added, would make us wonderful complete Christians, glorious shining lights in the world, that hold forth the life and power of the word, in the midst of crooked & perverse multitudes of men; and that is contentation: Oh the gain of godliness, if we were settled and contented with that we have, and could learn of the Apostle in all estates to be content! To have the skill to want, and to abound, and yet by Christ to do all things: This would finish the glory of the whole frame of godliness, and be like a crown to all other gifts and graces, 1. Tim. 6.6, 7. Philip. 4.11, 12, 18.

Twelfthly, Now ther is one thing more, which being added, would make vs wonderful compleat Christians, glorious shining lights in the world, that hold forth the life and power of the word, in the midst of crooked & peruerse multitudes of men; and that is contentation: Oh the gaine of godlines, if we were settled and contented with that we haue, and could learne of the Apostle in all estates to be content! To haue the skill to want, and to abound, and yet by Christ to doe all things: This would finish the glory of the whole frame of godlines, and be like a crown to all other gifts and graces,

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