A25280:1808
An analytical exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustratedAn analyticall exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated
An analytical exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated by doctrines out of every text and applied by their uses for a further progress in holiness / by ... William Ames ...An analyticall exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated by doctrines out of every text and applyed by their uses for a further progresse in holinesse / by ... William Ames ...
London: printed by E.G. for John Rothwell, 1641London: printed by E.G. for Iohn Rothwell, 1641
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.
This is gathered from these words, By reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. By the way of truth is meant the Gospel, or the will of God revealed in the Scripture, which shows the true way of salvation. It is said to be evil spoken of, when the dignity thereof is violated, most properly by reproachful words. It is said to be evil spoken of by ⟨p. 194⟩them, namely, by the authors of the heresies and their followers, in a two-fold respect, 1. When they themselves speak reproachfully of it, as the Scribes and Pharisees did of Christ. 2. While they give others occasion to speak reproachfully of it, as the Jews did unto the Gentiles, Rom. 2. 24. both respects seem to be meant here by these, for the Greek word [Greek or Hebrew] signifies per & propter, by, and by reason of.
This is gathered from these words, By reason of whom the way of truth shall be evill spoken of. By the way of truth is meant the Gospell, or the will of God revealed in the Scripture, which shewes the true way of salvation. It is said to be evill spoken of, when the dignity thereof is violated, most properly by reproachfull words. It is said to be evill spoken of by ⟨p. 194⟩them, namely, by the authors of the heresies and their followers, in a two-fold respect, 1. When they themselves speak reproachfully of it, as the Scribes and Pharisees did of Christ. 2. While they give others occasion to speak reproachfully of it, as the Jewes did unto the Gentiles, Rom. 2. 24. both respects seeme to be meant here by these, for the Greek word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 signifies per & propter, by, and by reason of.
Use 1. This may serve to instruct us, to judge aright of the nature of sin, that never stays till it hath brought men to blasphemy against God, and to speak evil of the way of God.