A17384:891
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 the godly themselves, that live not comfortably, and are daily distressed with unbelief, shall any distresses now make Zion droop? The Lord takes it wonderfully unkindly, that Zion said, God hath forsaken me, and my God hath forgotten me, and pleads earnestly to prove, that it was false. What, says the Prophet Micah, 1is there no King in thee? why doest thou cry out? Mic. 4.8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. And the Prophet Jeremiah notes it with indignation: Behold, saith he, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people, because of them that dwell n far countries: Is not the Lord in Zion? Is not her King in her? Jerem. 8.19.
First, to the godly themselues, that liue not comfortably, and are dailie distressed with vnbelief, shal any distresses now make Sion droop? The Lord takes it wonderfully vnkindly, that Sion said, God hath forsaken mee, and my God hath forgotten mee, and pleades earnestly to proue, that it was false. What, saies the Prophet Micah, 1is there no King in thee? why doest thou crie out? Mic. 4.8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. And the Prophet Ieremie notes it with indignation: Behold, saith he, the voice of the crie of the daughter of my people, because of them that dwell n farre countries: Is not the Lord in Sion? Is not her King in her? Ierem. 8.19.