A17384:714
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, to abhor fornication, seeing our bodies are the temples of the holy Ghost, 1. Cor. 6.21.
Secondly, to keep our selves for being unequally yoked: Because there can be no communion between light and darkness, the Temple of God, and Idols.
Secondly, to keepe our selues for being vnequally yoked: Because there can bee no communion betweene light and darknes, the Temple of God, and Idols.
Thirdly, to look to our harts in respect of inward sins, and to keep the room clean for the Lord to dwell in, 2. Cor. 7.1.
Thirdly, to looke to our harts in respect of inward sinnes, and to keepe the roome cleane for the Lord to dwell in, 2. Cor. 7.1.
Fourthly, to stir up our selves to much prayer: if our hearts be the house of God, let them be a house of prayer also.