A17384:438
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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Fifthly, It should persuade all Gods servants to live by faith, and not through unbelief in the time of affliction, or temptation to dishonour god. Why sayest thou, thy way is past over of God? Or why sayest thou, The Lord hath forgotten, or will not forgive? Isaiah, 40.27. &. 49.15, 16. Exod. 34.6.7.
Fiftly, It should perswade all Gods seruants to liue by faith, and not through vnbeliefe in the time of affliction, or temptation to dishonor god. Why saist thou, thy way is past ouer of God? Or why sayst thou, The Lord hath forgotten, or will not forgiue? Esay, 40.27. &. 49.15, 16. Exod. 34.6.7.
Sixthly, It should kindle in us a vehement desire to imitate so sacred a nature, and continually to strive to be like the pattern in God for courtesy, Eph. 4.32. kindness, 2. Cor. 6.6. and all loving behaviour, Colos. 2.12. 1. Cor. 13.4. and easy to bee intreated, Jam. 3.17. and love to our enemies, Luke. 6.35. We should be followers of God, Eph. 5.1. we should bear his image especially herein, Col. 3.10.
Sixtly, It should kindle in vs a vehement desire to imitate so sacred a nature, and continually to striue to be like the patterne in God for curtesie,