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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
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5 If we consider the miseries with which this life is infested, both by sin, and the punishments of it. As for sin, it is leprous from the womb, and charged with Adams fault, and errs so often as cannot be numbered; the faults of it are more than the hairs of our heads. As for punishment, how hath God avenged himself upon thy wretched life, to thrust thee out of Paradise, and would not let thee enjoy life in any place that was not accursed? The Devils also compass about thy life to destroy it, 2. Cor. 10.5. What deformities and infirmities are found in all the Vessels of life, even in all the parts of thy body in which it dwells? And without thee, in the objects of life, how is it frighted with cares, plagues, or vexed with particular crosses? How doth God pass by thee, in many blessings he gives before thy face to others, and will not to thee? And what thou hast to comfort thy life, is it not cursed to thee, so as thou feelest vanity and vexation in the use of it? But above, how is thy life frighted with the danger of eternal death?
5 If wee consider the miseries with which this life is infested, both by sinne, and the punishments of it. As for sinne, it is leprous from the wombe, and charged with Adams fault, and erres so often as cannot be numbred; the faults of it are more than the haires of our heads. As for punishment, how hath God ave•ged himselfe upon thy wretched life, to thrust thee out of Paradise, and would not let thee enjoy life in any place that was not accursed? The Divells also compasse about thy life to destroy it, 2. Cor. 10.5. What deformities and infirmities are found in all the Vessels of life, even in all the parts of thy body in which it dwells? And without thee, in the objects of life, how is it frighted with cares, plagues, or vexed with particular crosses? How doth God passe by thee, in many blessings he gives before thy face to others, and will not to thee? And what thou hast to comfort thy life, is it not cursed to thee, so as thou feelest vanity and vexation in the use of it? But above, how is thy life frighted with the danger of eternall death?