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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 All these things are transitory, and uncertain, and mutable. which may be considered of three ways: First, if thou ⟨p. 227⟩love these things, thou art not sure thou canst keep them; they may be lost suddenly and fearfully: for either they may wear out of themselves, or they may be taken from thee; they are liable to vanity in themselves, or to violence from others, Matth. 6.19.20. 1. Pet. 1.24. Secondly, if thou be sure to enjoy them, yet they will be suddenly lost to thee, because thou canst not make thy heart to take delight in the same things still; for, not only the world passeth away, but the lusts thereof also, 1. Job. 2.15. Eccles. 6.1, 7. & 9.3. Thirdly, if neither of these befall thee, yet thou art mortal, thou must be taken from them, and thy life is short like a dream, and passeth away like the wind; and thou art but a stranger and pilgrim here; and thou must carry nothing out of the world; but in all points, as thou camest into the world, so must thou go hence, Psal. 90. Job 7.7. Eccles. 5.13, 14, 15. All flesh is grass, Isaiah 40.6.
5 All these things are transitory, and uncertaine, and mutable. which may be considered of three waies: First, if thou ⟨p. 227⟩love these things, thou art not sure thou canst keepe them; they may be lost suddenly and fearefully: for either they may wear out of themselves, or they may be taken from thee; they are liable to vanitie in themselves, or to violence from others, Matth. 6.19.20.