A17385:684
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.
Fifthly, what rules we are to observe either for the preventing of them, or deliverance out of them.
Fiftly, what rules we are to observe either for the preventing of them, or deliverance out of them.
1For the first. Satan doth tempt men five ways: 1. By causing men to tempt: Thus he caused Peter to tempt Christ; and so he doth commonly stir up wicked men in all ages to be his instruments for tempting. 2. By assuming to himself some outward shape or likeness, and therein vocally to allure and beguile men; thus he tempts witches, and some monstrous offenders. 3. By presenting objects to our senses that may tempt us: therefore Job said, he would make a covenant with his eyes. 4. By inflaming the corruption of our own nature to evil: For when evil is hatched in our minds, if it work there strongly, it will have some effect upon the body in some part of it, and thereby Satan knows the fire that is in us, and then he comes to us, and blows all those coals with all cunning and fury to provoke us yet more and more unto sin. 5. Lastly, he tempts us by injecting evil into our minds, but how he doth this is unknown: and this last is that, which usually we think of, when we speak of the temptations of Satan.
1For the first. Sathan doth tempt men five waies: 1. By causing men to tempt: Thus he caused Peter to tempt Christ; and so he doth commonly stir up wicked men in all ages to be his instruments for tempting. 2. By assuming to himselfe some outward shape or likenesse, and therein vocally to allure and beguile men; thus hee tempts witches, and some monstrous offenders. 3. By presenting objects to our senses that may tempt us: therefore Iob said, he would make a covenant with his eyes. 4. By enflaming the corruption of our owne nature to evill: For when evill is hatched in our mindes, if it work there strongly, it will have some effect upon the body in some part of it, and thereby Sathan knowes the fire that is in us, and then hee comes to us, and blowes all those coales with all cunning and fury to provoke us yet more and more unto sinne. 5. Lastly, hee tempts us by injecting evill into our mindes, but how hee doth this is unknowne: and this last is that, which usually wee thinke of, when wee speake of the temptations of Sathan.