A17385:705
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.
2. Secondly, the tentations of Satan are usually sudden, and fierce, and violent like lightning, that leaves not a man time for deliberation: Thus he […] CHRIST with the glory of the world, but it is in a moment, lest ou• Saviour by deliberation should find our reasons of exceptions against ⟨p. 60⟩earthly glory: and so when the devil would persuade to sin that is gross and m•nstrous, he labours to confound a man with the sudden fierceness, and flame of the tentations; whereas concupiscence is more lingering and flower.
2. Secondly, the tentations of Sathan are usually sudden, and fierce, and violent like lightning, that leaves not a man time for deliberation: Thus he 〈…〉 CHRIST with the glory of the world, but it is in a moment, lest ou• Saviour by deliberation should finde our reasons of exceptions against ⟨p. 60⟩earthly glory: and so when the devill would perswade to sinne that is grosse and m•nstrous, hee labours to confound a man with the suddaine fiercenesse, and flame of the tentations; whereas concupiscence is more lingring and flower.
3. Thirdly, those evils that are instantly disliked, and in no measure consented to, or approved, are from Satan, and not from concupiscence. For concupiscence works by the natural proneness to the evil, which cannot be without all desire, or liking, and these tentations may be none of our sins. The first motions are not always to be counted our sins: For Christ was tempted not only for the matter, but for the manner in all things like unto us, yet without sin: he had monstrous things cast into his mind by the devil, yet he sinned not: so likewise it is not our sin simply that tentations are there. For a man doth not sin in the tentation, till he be in some degree drawn away by it.