A17384:486
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 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.
The comforts we feele in this life, may well be likened to the taste, both because wee haue them but in small quantity, and because they are quickly growne out of sence; they are but of short continuance.
There may be three uses made of this point.
There may be three vses made of this point.
First, it may quiet them that complain out of Scruple of Conscience, that their joys they have, be not right, because they are so quickly lost; whereas they must be informed, that the comforts the best men can get in this World, are but a little taste, given out of the Rivers of Gods pleasures.
First, it may quiet them that complaine out of Scruple of Conscience, that their ioyes they haue, be not right, because they are so quickly lost; whereas they must bee informed, that the comforts the best men can get in this World, are but a little taste, giuen out of the Riuers of Gods pleasures.