A17384:452
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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Eighthly, And constantly the experience hereof should set us a longing: our souls should long for the courts of Gods house, and our hearts cry for the daily bread in Zion, and we should ⟨p. 99⟩constantly walk from strength to strength, till we appear before God in Zion, Psalm 84; and the rather, because, besides the sweetness, there is a plentiful reward in keeping Gods Word, Psalm 19.20.
Eightthly, And constantly the experience hereof should set vs alonging: our soules should long for the courts of Gods house, and our hearts cry for the daily bread in Sion, and we should ⟨p. 99⟩constantly walk from strength to strength, til we appear before God in Sion, Psalm 84; and the rather, because, besides the sweetnes, there is a plentifull reward in keeping Gods Word, Psalm 19.20.
Secondly, from hence we may be informed in two especial things.
Secondly, from hence we may bee informed in two especiall things.
1. Concerning the happiness of the godly in this life, notwithstanding all their afflictions and sorrows. Thou seest their distresses: but thou seest not their comforts. The stranger doth not meddle with their joys. Oh how great is the goodness of God, in giving his people to drink out of the rivers of the pleasures in his house, when he makes their eyes to see the light in his light!