A commentary

Name: A commentary
Author: Nicholas Byfield

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.

Nicholas Byfield 1579–1622London: printed by Humphrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623London: printed by Humfrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623

[16], 922, [6] p. · 245k words · STC 4211 · ESTC S107078

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And as this is terrible to all deceivers, so especially to such as are guilty of the aggravations of the sin.¹ As, 1. When deceit is covered with smooth words, ¹and a flattering stile, Jerem. 9.8. Prou. 26.24, &c. 2. When men delight in it, and take a contemplative kind of pleasure in their guileful projects; as the voluptuous person doth in his lust: When mens bellies prepare deceit; Job. 15. ult. not their heads, but their bellies, Psalm 52.2, 4. 3. When men make a trade of it, give their tongues to evil, and will frame deceit. Psal. 50.19. Bend their Tongues to lies, and teach their tongues to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity, Jerem. 9.5. 4. When men think all time spent about Gods service too long; they would have the Sabbaths over, that they might practise deceit, Amos. 8.5. 5. When men Swear deceitfully, Psal. 24.4. 6. When men boast of it, Psal. 52.1, 3.

And as this is terrible to all deceiuers, so especially to such as are guilty of the aggrauations of the sinne.¹ As, 1. When deceit is couered with smooth words, ¹and a flattering stile, Ierem. 9.8

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