A17384:485
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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The fourth Doctrine that may be gathered out of these words,1 is; that it is but a taste of the ⟨p. 108⟩sweetness of God we can attain to in this life, we cannot reach unto the thousand part of the joys of Gods presence and favour, in this world. These are part of his ways, but how little a portion is heard of him! Job. 26. ult. Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, nor heart of man perceived the things, which God hath prepared for them that love him, 1 Cor. 2.9.
The fourth Doctrine that may be gathered out of these words,1 is; that it is but a taste of the ⟨p. 108⟩sweetenesse of God we can attaine to in this life, we cannot reach vnto the thousand part of the ioyes of Gods presence and fauour, in this world. These are part of his wayes, but how little a portion is heard of him! Iob. 26. vlt. Eye hath not seene, nor Eare heard, nor heart of man perceiued the things, which God hath prepared for them that loue him, 1 Cor. 2.9.
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The comforts we feel in this life, may well be likened to the taste, both because we have them but in small quantity, and because they are quickly grown out of sense; they are but of short continuance.