A17384:49
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, Avoid three sorts of men, and thou mayest be free from malice.
Secondly, Auoide three sorts of men, and thou maist be free from malice.
The first is the tale-bearer. Where no wood is, the fire goeth out: and where there is no tale-bearer, strife ceaseth. Prou. 26.20. The second is the scorner: for, Cast out the scorner, and contention ceaseth. Prou. 22.10. The third is the contentious man, the froward person, the man of imaginations, he that is apt upon every trifle to snuff, and contest. For as coals are to burning coals, so is a contentious man to kindle strife: Prou. 26.21.
The first is the tale-bearer. Where no wood is, the fire goeth out: and where there is no tale-bearer, strife ceaseth. Prou. 26.20. The second is the scorner: for, Cast out the scorner, and contention ceaseth. Prou. 22.10. The third is the contentious man, the froward person, the man of imaginations, he that is apt vpon euerie trifle to snuffe, and contest. For as coales are to burning coales, so is a contentious man to kindle strife: Prou. 26.21.
Thirdly, Doest thou mislike any thing in thy brother? go to him, and reprove him plainly, never hate him in thy heart,