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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.
2 These are all common things; and that in two respects: first, there is nothing new now to be had, which hath not been had heretofore ordinarily. What is now, hath been before, and will be afterwards. Thou canst enjoy no felicity of life, that can be proper to thy self, Eccles. 1.9, 10. & 3.15. And then further, all these things a fool may enjoy as well as a wise man, and a wicked man as well as a godly man. A man shall never know love or hatred by these things; for they fall alike to all sorts of men, Eccles. 2.14.
2 These are all common things; and that in two respects: first, there is nothing new now to be had, which hath not been had heeretofore ordinarily. What is now, hath beene before, and will be afterwards. Thou canst enjoy no felicity of life, that can be proper to thy selfe, Eccles. 1.9, 10. & 3.15. And then further, all these things a fool may enjoy as well as a wise man, and a wicked man as well as a godly man. A man shall never know love or hatred by these things; for they fall alike to all sorts of men, Eccles. 2.14.
3 All things are full of labour, who can utter it? If men do reckon the pains, and care, and unquietness, and weariness they are put to about the getting, or keeping, or using of these things, they would find little cause to love them; especially, considering that unto the use of the most of these is required a daily labour with toil, that men that possess these things, cannot possess themselves, they are so overburdened with the cares and labours of life, Eccles. 1.8