A17385:1457
A commentary upon the three first chapters of the first Epistle general of St.…A commentary upon the three first chapters of the first Epistle generall of St.…
A commentary upon the three first chapters of the first Epistle general of St. Peter Wherein are most judiciously and profitably handled such points of doctrine as naturally flow from the text. Together with a very useful application thereof: and many good rules for a godly life. By Nicholas Byfield preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex. To which is now newly added an alphabetical table, not formerly published.A commentary upon the three first chapters of the first Epistle generall of St. Peter VVherin are most judiciously and profitably handled such points of doctrine as naturally flow from the text. Together with a very usefull application thereof: and many good rules for a godly life. By Nicholas Byfield preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex. To which is now newly added an alphabeticall table, not formerly published.
London: printed by Miles Flesher and Robert Young, 1637
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
4. By confession and godly sorrow to beat down, and crucify our flesh, and the lusts thereof, when they begin to rise.
4. By confession and godly sorrow to beat downe, and crucifie our flesh, and the lusts thereof, when they begin to rise.
Thus of the matter to be avoided, viz. The lusts of their former ignorance. The manner follows, viz. not to be fashioned unto them; which imports,1 that they should not give themselves over out of the liking of sin to the service and obedience of it. For to fashion our selves to evil hath in it divers things.
Thus of the matter to be avoided, viz. The lusts of their former ignorance. The manner followes, viz. not to be fashioned unto them; which imports,1 that they should not give themselves over out of the liking of sin to the service and obedience of it. For to fashion our selves to evill hath in it divers things.
- 1Fashioning of our selves to sin hath 7. things in it.Fashioning of our selves to sinne hath 7. things in it.
1. The imagining of mischief: praeconsideration, deliberation: the frame of evil. 2. An admiration of the beauty of sin, a liking of it, a secret inward high estimation of it, a kind of adoring of the felicity contained in it, a contemplative delight in it. 3. A taking care to perform it, and accomplish it. 4. A framing and ordering of our affairs, that they may be obeyed, and the inward frame effected. 5. A constancy in all this to be every day striving about it. 6. A pursuing of sin, though we be disappointed or cloyed in the enjoying of it. 7. A laying down of all our armour, and not resisting it.