A17384:40
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1The original word is diversly accepted. For sometimes it signifies misery, or grief for affliction; and so it is used to signify the evil of the day, Matth. 6. ult. Sometimes it is rendered naughtiness, or wickedness in general, and so it importeth vile crimes, or notorious offences, and so it is taken, Jam. 1.21. Acts 2.22. In this sense it may be taken here: For it is certain, that if men be guilty of wickedness, and come in the love of any sin, the word is poisoned in them: especially whoredom and wine take away mens hearts from the word, Hos. 4. Lastly, it is rendered in divers places, malice: as 1. Cor. 5.8. Colos. 3.8. and so it is here.
1The originall word is diuersly accepted. For sometimes it signifies miserie, or griefe for affliction; and so it is vsed to signifie the euill of the day, Matth. 6. vlt. Sometimes it is rendred naughtinesse, or wickednesse in generall, and so it importeth vile crimes, or notorious offences, and so it is taken, Iam. 1.21. Acts 2.22. In this sense it may be taken here: For it is certaine, that if men be guilty of wickednesse, and come in the loue of any sinne, the word is poisoned in them: especially whoredome and wine take away mens hearts from the word, Hos. 4. Lastly, it is rendred in diuers places, malice: as 1. Cor. 5.8.