A17384:500
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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Seventhly, Some are fearfully delivered to a spiritual slumber, the Justice of God scourging their impenitency and disobedience, that made no use of his judgements, and the remorses they felt before; And so are in the case of the Jews, Rom. 11.
Seuenthly, Some are fearefully deliuered to a spirituall slumber, the Iustice of God scourging their impenitency and disobedience, that made no vse of his iudgements, and the remorses they felt before; And so are in the case of the Iewes, Rom. 11.
Eighthly, Because God doth for the most part reserve these tastes, as the only portion of his ⟨p. 111⟩own people: and therefore never wonder, though the common multitude attain not to it, Psalm 36.8.9.
Eightthly, Because God doth for the most part reserue these tastes, as the onely portion of his ⟨p. 111⟩owne people: and therefore neuer wonder, though the common multitude attain not to it, Psalm 36.8.9.
Lastly, the best Christians are often much restrained in their taste of the sweetness of Gods favour and presence, because they are not careful enough to attend upon God in his ordinances: they do not seek God, and strive to find Gods favour and presence in the means: they hear and pray loosely, with too much slackness and remissness of zeal and attention.