A17384:717
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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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.
Fourthly, to stir vp our selues to much praier: if our hearts be the house of God, let them bee a house of praier also.
Fifthly, let us still lift up our harts, as everlasting doors for the Lord of Glory to come in, Psalm 24.7.
Fiftly, let vs still lift vp our harts, as euerlasting dores for the Lord of Glorie to come in, Psalme 24.7.
For consolation. Shall we not say as Paul doth, We will rejoice in our infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in us? How should we hold up our head against all tentations and afflictions? Is not the grace of Christ sufficient for us, 2. Cor. 12.9? And shall we not be confident, that through Christ we can do all things? Will he forsake the house, upon which his Name is called? Will he not perfect his own work, and repair his own dwelling place? Was the tabernacle safe in the wilderness, while the cloud was upon it? and are not our hearts safe, while Christ is in them? How are the abject Gentiles honoured Col. 1.27. whose hearts are so enriched by Christ, that dwells in them! If the outward ⟨p. 154⟩Sanctuary were like high palaces,