A17384:774
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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Twelfthly, If we be called to it, we must not deny unto God the fat of the kidneys, and the inwards. By the fat was meant the things which are dearest to us, most beloved, and that most delight us: and if the service of God, and the Church and the poor require it, we must deny our selves, and sacrifice what is most dear to us.
Twelfthly, If wee be called to it, wee must not deny vnto God the fat of the kidneies, and the inwards. By the fat was meant the things which are dearest to vs, most beloued, and that most delight vs: and if the seruice of God, and the Church and the poore require it, wee must deny our selues, and sacrifice what is most deare to vs.
Thirteenthly, the Apostle to the Hebrews, Chap. 13.13. adds, that we must not leave off welldoing for reproach sake, but be contented to be like Christ, who suffered without the gate, as scorned of men, and like the sacrifice was burnt without the camp. Though all men hate us, and speak evil of us, and cast us out of their companies, yet we must persist in our intention to sacrifice still to God.
Thirteenthly, the Apostle to the Hebrewes, Chap. 13.13. addes, that we must not leaue off weldoing for reproach sake, but be contented to bee like Christ, who suffered without the gate, as scorned of men, and like the sacrifice was burnt without the campe. Though all men hate vs, and speake euill of vs, and cast vs out of their companies, yet wee must persist in our intention to sacrifice still to God.