A17412:1082
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.
3 Of the great neglect of mercy in the most men, that either show not mercy at all, or not bowels of mercy, or not according to the rules given before, especially such as hide themselves from the poor, Isaiah 58.7. and use shifts and excuses to avoid such supplies, as are necessary for the furtherance of the relief for the poor in such places as they live, Prov. 24.11, 12. But judgement merciless shall be to them that show no mercie, Jam. 2.13.
3 Of the great neglect of mercy in the most men, that either shew not mercy at all, or not bowells of mercy, or not according to the rules given before, especially such as hide themselves from the poore, Esay 58.7. and use shifts and excuses to avoide such supplies, as are necessary for the furtherance of the reliefe for the poore in such places as they live, Prov. 24.11, 12. But judgement mercilesse shall bee to them that shew no mercie, Iam. 2.13.
4 Diverse of the better sort are to be rebuked about this point: many Christians spend a great deal of zeal about ⟨p. 198⟩lesser matters, and in the mean time neglect the greater things of the Law, such as are judgement and mercy; for few Christians are sufficiently instructed, or inflamed in the estimation of the worth of the works of mercy, or the necessity of them to the glorifying of God, and the profession of Religion. Matth. 23.23.
4 Diverse of the better sort are to be rebuked about this point: many Christians spend a great deale of zeale about ⟨p. 198⟩