A17384:787
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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Quest. But what should we do, that we may be sure our sacrifices be accepted of God? How shall we know, when God doth accept our service in any holy duty?
Quest. But what should we doo, that we may be sure our sacrifices be accepted of God? How shall we knowe, when God doth accept our seruice in any holy duty?
Ans. That a mans conscience may be soundly established in this point of God's acceptation, we must look to three things.
First,1 that the person be sanctified. None but Priests must approach to offer sacrifice to God. They that are in the flesh, cannot please GOD, Rom. 8.8. The sons of Levi must be purified and refined, as the silver is refined, before their offering will be pleasing, Mal. 3.3▪ 4. When the Lord rejected, with so much disdain, the sacrifices of the Jews, he shows what they should have done to please him: they should have washed themselves by true repentance, and put away the evil of their works, Isaiah 1.11, 16. Only ⟨p. 172⟩the works of the penitent cannot be accepted: if the person be not in favour, the works are hated. For, they are sanctified by the holy Ghost, Rom. 15.16.
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