A17384:698
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, disorder, or confusedness in matters of Religion is the cause in others: This is a wonderful common defect: men do not go to work distinctly to see their works finished one after another.
Seuenthly, disorder, or confusednes in matters of Religion is the cause in others: This is a wonderfull common defect: men doe not goe to work distinctly to see their works finished one after another.
Eighthly others are kept back with personal discords, & jangling▪ Envy, or malice, or contention, ⟨p. 149⟩misrule eat out the very heart of godliness.
Eightly others are kept back with personal discords, & iangling▪ Enuie, or malice, or contentiō, ⟨p. 149⟩misrule eate out the verie heart of godlines.
Ninthly, others are letted by intemperancy, in being drowned in the love of pleasures: They build, they sow, they eat, and drink, and follow pastimes, neglecting the care of better things.
Ninthly, others are letted by intemperancy, in being drowned in the loue of pleasures: They build, they sowe, they eat, and drink, and follow pastimes, neglecting the care of better things.