A17385:687
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.
1. The first is, the evil motion it self barely considered, as it is cast into the mind.
1. The first is, the evill motion it selfe barely considered, as it is cast into the minde.
2. The second is, the liking of it, when our concupiscence upon the discerning of the evil thought, doth yield a kind of approbation, we being content, that such an evil thought should be there.
2. The second is, the liking of it, when our concupiscence upon the discerning of the evill thought, doth yeeld a kind of approbation, we being content, that such an evill thought should be there.
3. The third degree is delight: when we please our selves with contemplative wickedness, taking a kind of contentment in musing upon such evil things, suffering our thoughts to feed themselves in the delights of such imaginations, where we suppose the practice of evil, though as yet we have no resolution any way to give our selves liberty to do, as we think.
3. The third degree is delight: when we please our selves with contemplative wickednesse, taking a kind of contentment in musing upon such evill things, suffering our thoughts to feed themselves in the delights of such imaginations, where we suppose the practice of evill, though as yet we have no resolution any way to give our selves liberty to doe, as we thinke.