A17384:925
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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Shall not be confounded.]
The Prophet Isaiah hath it thus: He that believeth shall not make haste, & it may be understood either as a precept: Let him not make hast, or as a promise, He shall not make haste. Men make haste two ways, either in their behaviour, when they run headlong upon the duties they are to do; or when, through impatience, they will not tarry Gods leisure for their help and deliverance; but fall to use unlawful means, and take that which comes next them, without consideration of the lawfulness of it.
The Prophet Isaiah hath it thus: He that beleeueth shall not make haste, & it may be vnderstood either as a precept: Let him not make hast, or as a promise, He shal not make haste. Men make haste two waies, either in their behauiour, when they runne headlong vpon the duties they are to doe; or when, through impatience, they will not tarrie Gods leasure for their helpe and deliuerance; but fall to vse vnlawfull meanes, and take that which comes next them, without consideration of the lawfulnesse of it.
Now, the believer must avoid both these, and God will, in some measure, sanctify and guide the believer thereunto.
Now, the beleeuer must auoide both these, and God wil, in some measure, sanctifie and guide the beleeuer thereunto.