A17384:691
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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Out of all this we may inform our selves concerning the causes of not profiting in many. The reason why many Christians are not built up, or why they increase not in godliness, is, that they are guilty of these, or some of these things implied in these directions.
Out of all this wee may informe our selues concerning the causes of not profiting in many. The reason why many Christians are not built vp, or why they increase not in godliness, is, that they are guilty of these, or some of these things implied in these directions.
First,1 some profit not by reason of their irresolution about the taking up of their cross in following ⟨p. 146⟩[…] ⟨p. 147⟩[…] ⟨p. 148⟩Christ: They thrust into the profession of Religion, before they have sitten down to cast what this profession may cost them, and so in the evil day fall away, Luke 14.28.
First,1 some profit not by reason of their irresolution about the taking vp of their crosse in following ⟨p. 146⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 147⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 148⟩