A17384:943
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,1 the godly shall not be ashamed, or shamed with everlasting shame, or they shall not be ashamed at the day of Judgement: though it were granted, they might be ashamed in this life, Isaiah 45.17. in that World, which is without end, they shall not be ashamed.
First,1 the godly shall not bee ashamed, or shamed with euerlasting shame, or they shall not be asham'd at the day of Iudgement: though it were graunted, they might bee ashamed in this life, Esay 45.17. in that World, which is without end, they shall not bee ashamed.
- 1How far the godly may be confounded.
Secondly, we may answer with the Prophet Daniel, that shame and confusion belongs unto the godly, if we respect their deserts, but they are freed from it by the covenant of grace in Christ, Dan. 9.7.
Secondly, wee may answer with the Prophet Daniel, that shame and confusion belongs vnto the godly, if wee respect their deserts, but they are freed from it by the couenant of grace in Christ, Dan. 9.7.
Thirdly, if we consider of the state of the Church in the public condition of it, as both good and bad are mingled together: so God may pour out terrible shame and confusion upon visible Churches for their great provocations, as,