A17384:662
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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Lastly; woe to the multitudes of wicked men, whom God neglects with that heavy curse, so as a stone is not taken of them to make a stone for the building, Jerem. 50.26.
Lastly; woe to the multitudes of wicked men, whom God neglects with that heauy curse, so as a stone is not taken of them to make a stone for the building, Ierem. 50.26.
Thus they are stones: It is added, they must be lively stones, to signify wherein they must not be like unto stones: they must not be dull, and insensible, they must be lively and cheerful, and that for divers reasons.
Thus they are stones: It is added, they must be liuely stones, to signify wherein they must not be like vnto stones: they must not be dull, and insensible, they must be liuely and cheerefull, and that for diuers reasons.