A17384:692
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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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⟩Christ: They thrust into the profession of Religion, before they haue sitten downe to cast what this profession may cost them, and so in the euill day fall away, Luke 14.28.
- 1Causes why many are so little edified.
Secondly, some can never thrive, because they place their godliness only in the frequency of hearing the Word, and the outward observance of Gods ordinances: These build in the sands, they lay no sure foundation,