A17384:953
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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Secondly, To sue out this promise upon all occasions. For since they have a grant of freedom in this kind, they should seek unto God for the obtaining of it, as they shall find need: when either their crosses press them, or their hearts fail them: so did David in many places of the Psalms, as Psal. 31.1, 17. and 119.116. and in divers other places.
Secondly, To sue out this promise vpon all occasions. For since they haue a graunt of freedome in this kind, they should seek vnto God for the obtaining of it, as they shall find need: when either their crosses presse them, or their hearts faile them: so did Dauid in many places of the Psalmes, as Psal. 31.1, 17. and 119.116. and in diuers other places.
Thirdly, but they must ever look to it, that ⟨p. 214⟩they be such as may answer the conditions of this promise, expressed in this or in other Scriptures; as, 11. They must preserve a constant respect unto God's commandments, and in all their ways be sound in God's statutes; else, wilful sin and shame will be companions, Psalm 119.6, 80. 2. They must not be ashamed of GOD's truth, and the profession of it, but witness a good profession before all men, Psalm 119.46. 3. They must not be too tender in matter of reproach from the world, but learn of Christ to despise the shame and scorns of men,