A17412:711
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 In respect of their aptness to fears and amazement, and other perturbations, more unconstant, and not so stable in heart as man.
5 In respect of their aptnesse to feares and amazement, and other perturbations, more unconstant, and not so stable in heart as man.
6 In respect of the discovery of their hearts & natures, whether in good or evil. It is harder to find out throughly the perfect disposition of a woman in good or evil, than of men. Solomon could find out the temper of one man among a thousand men, but not the heart of one woman among so many; and that I take it to be the true sense of that place, Eccles. 7.28, 29. compared with verse 25.27.
6 In respect of the discovery of their hearts & natures, whether in good or evill. It is harder to finde out throughly the perfect disposition of a woman in good or evill, than of men. Salomon could finde out the temper of one man among a thousand men, but not the heart of one woman among so many; and that I take it to bee the true sense of that place, Eccles. 7.28, 29. compared with verse 25.27.
7 In respect of their proneness to vanity, and pride in apparel; which I gather from this, that all the express directions about apparel that I remember in Scripture, are given ⟨p. 130⟩rather to women than to men, especially in the new Testament, as