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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.
5 If thou have a spirit without guile, Psal. 32 2. and that will appear,
5 If thou have a spirit without guile, Psal. 32 2. and that will appeare,
1 By thy desire to be godly and religious, more than to seem so, Rom. 2.26.
2 By thy desire to be rid of all sin, and to be turned from all thy transgressions, Ezech. 18.30. setting thy self against thine own iniquity, 2. Sam. 22.24. If thou feel a combat within thee; the spirit striving against the flesh, aswell about inward sins, as outward: against the very evil that cleaves to thy best works, and against those sins that thou hast most loved, or have been most gainful or pleasing to thee, Gal. 5.17.
2 By thy desire to be ridde of all sinne, and to be turned from all thy transgressions, Ezech. 18.30. setting thy selfe against thine owne iniquity, 2. Sam. 22.24. If thou feele a combat within thee; the spirit striving against the flesh, aswell about inward sinnes, as outward: against the very evill that cleaves to thy best workes, and against those sinnes that thou hast most loved, or have been most gainefull or pleasing to thee,