A17384:776
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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Fourteenthly, In the Sacrifices God had a ⟨p. 169⟩great respect of mercy, that cruelty were not showed, as Levit. 22.27. When he enjoined, that the creature must be seven days under the dam, and that no dam with the young one was to be slain the same day: Certainly, God abhorreth, that cruelty should be exercised under pretence of piety. Cursed be those long prayers, that will devour widows houses, Matth. 23.
Fourteenthly, In the Sacrifices God had a ⟨p. 169⟩great respect of mercy, that cruelty were not shewed, as Leuit. 22.27. When he enioyned, that the creature must be seuen dayes vnder the damme, and that no damme with the young one was to be slaine the same day: Certainly, God abhorreth, that cruelty should bee exercised vnder pretence of piety. Cursed be those long praiers, that will deuoure widowes houses, Matth. 23.
In one thing we differ from the sacrifices: For the sacrifices were dead, or consisted of things without life; but we must be living sacrifices; we must do what we will do while we are alive, and must do it lively, with the affections that belong to the duties to be done.
In one thing we differ from the sacrifices: For the sacrifices were dead, or consisted of things without life; but wee must be liuing sacrifices; wee must do what we will do while we are aliue, and must do it liuely, with the affections that belong to the duties to be done.