A17385:706
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
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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.
3. Thirdly, those evils that are instantly disliked, and in no measure consented to, or approved, are from Sathan, and not from concupiscence. For concupiscence works by the naturall pronenesse to the evill, which cannot be without all desire, or liking, and these tentations may be none of our sins. The first motions are not alwaies to be counted our sinnes: For Christ was tempted not onely 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 devill, yet he sinned not: so likewise it is not our sinne simply that tentations are there. For a man doth not sinne in the tentation, till hee be in some degree drawne away by it.
1Now for the fourth thing, there are many comforts against tentations diversly to be raised out of the Scripture.
- 1Comforts against tentations.