A17384:465
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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Secondly, in the time of tasting. This taste in wicked men is but for a season, it cannot hold long in them: and therefore is their faith & joy said to be temporary: Whereas godly men may keep their taste to their dying days, not only in the gifts of saving graces, but in the very sense of the sweetness of Christ, and the Word too, &c.
Secondly, in the time of tasting. This taste in wicked men is but for a season, it cannot hold long in them: and therefore is their faith & joy said to be temporary: Whereas godly men may keep their taste to their dying daies, not onely in the gifts of sauing graces, but in the very sense of the sweetnes of Christ, and the Word too, &c.
Thirdly, in the manner of tasting. For, wicked men may taste of the Gospel and Religion by ⟨p. 103⟩senses, or by a dim kind of contemplation, or by a sudden illumination, as by a flash of lightning; but they cannot taste with their hearts clearly by Faith: Or thus, wicked men may, in the general, taste; that is, know, and believe that the Mystery of Christ is true; but they cannot taste, or know this Mystery, with particular and sound application, as theirs.
Thirdly, in the manner of tasting. For, wicked men may taste of the Gospell and Religion by ⟨p. 103⟩senses, or by a dimme kinde of contemplation, or by a sudden illumination, as by a flash of lightning; but they cannot taste with their hearts cleerely by Faith: Or thus, wicked men may, in the generall, taste; that is, know, and beleeue that the Mystery of Christ is true; but they cannot taste, or know this Mystery, with particular and sound application, as theirs.