A17412:1059
Sermons upon the ten first verses of the third chapter of the first Epistle…
Sermons upon the ten first verses of the third chapter of the first Epistle of S. Peter Being the last that were preached by the late faithful and painful minister of Gods word, Nicolas Byfield. Wherein method, sense, doctrine, and use, is, with great variety of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of divinity largely discussed. Published since the authors death by William Gouge.Sermons upon the ten first verses of the third chapter of the first Epistle of S. Peter Being the last that were preached by the late faithfull and painfull minister of Gods word, Nicolas Byfield. Wherein method, sense, doctrine, and vse, is, with great varietie of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of divinitie largely discussed. Published since the authors death by William Gouge.
London: printed by H. Lownes for George Latham, 1626
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.
Pitiful.] The word rendered Pitiful, in the Original signifies, rightly bowelled, or such as have true or right bowels: and so it is to be referred to mercy; and is more than other Scriptures express, when they require bowels of mercy: for here it is required that these bowels be right.
Pittifull.] The word rendred Pittifull, in the Originall signifies, rightly bowelled, or such as have true or right bowels: and so it is to bee referred to mercy; and is more than other Scriptures expresse, when they require bowells of mercy: for here it is required that these bowells be right.
In Mat. 25. men are sentenced to condemnation for not showing mercy. In other Scriptures it is showed, that though they do show mercy, yet if some things be not looked to, it will not be accepted, as Mith. 6.8. there is required not only mercy, but the love of mercy: and Mat. 6. the Pharisees did works of mercy, and yet our Saviour finds fault with them, because they were done to be seen of men: & in 1. Cor. 13.2. the Apostle saith, If a man give all that he hath to the poor, and want love, it is nothing: So here the Apostle requires, not mercy only, but that their bowels be right in mercy: and about this rule therefore two things are to be explicated.
In Mat. 25. men are sentenced to condemnation for not shewing mercie. In other Scriptures it is shewed, that though they doe shew mercy, yet if some things be not looked to, it will not be accepted, as Mith. 6.8. there is required not only mercy, but the love of mercy: and Mat. 6. the Pharisees did workes of mercy, and yet our Saviour findes fault with them, because they were done to be seen of men: & in