An analytical exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustratedAn analyticall exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated

Reason 1. Because virtus est habitus electivus, virtue is an habit pertaining to election, or hath good election joined with it. Now to this election it is required, that a man should rightly know the end, and also the means that lead unto the end, and the manner also how he may come to the end by those means.

Reason 1. Because virtus est habitus electivus, vertue is an habit pertaining to election, or hath good election joyned with it. Now to this election it is required, that a man should rightly know the end, and also the meanes that lead unto the end, and the manner also how he may come to the end by those meanes.

2. Because actions virtutum versantur in particularibus, the actions of virtues are in particulars, and therefore it is not sufficient to •udge aright of good and evil i• general, unless that judgement be also applied to particular actions, according to their circumstances.

2. Because actiones virtutum versantur in particularibus, the actions of vertues are in particulars, and therefore it is not sufficient to •udge aright of good and evill i• generall, unlesse that judgement be also applyed to particular actions, according to their circumstances.

Use 1. This may serve to reprove those, that please themselves in their ignorance, as if ignorance were the mother of devotion, or of any virtue, whereas it is the greatest enemy to virtue, and the mother of all profaneness, especially if it be voluntary, as Peter shows, Epist. 2. Chap 3. verse 5. Where he gives a reason of their great wickedness, because those scoffers of whom he speaks, were willingly ignorant of those things which pertain unto true godliness.