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A17412	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.	Byfield, Nicholas, 1579-1622.; Gouge, William, 1578-1653.	1626 (1626)	STC 4235; ESTC S107153	186,240	252

is thou thy selfe hast innumerable sinnes and there is no man alive that sinneth not in the whole world now if every man have innumerable contagious diseases what a loathsome pest-house is this world to live in The thoughts of a man can reach to the depth and length of this argument but inconsideration buries all wholsome counsell motives But besides this respect of sinne a Christian findes from his owne sinnes if there were none else in the world great cause to be weary of life first because sinne argues the imperfection of his nature both in soule and body and so long as he is in this sinfull life he can never have a perfect nature now a a man that loves himselfe for this reason would never love life Rom. 7.23 Secondly because sinne is an offence to God now a child of God should therefore loath life because by sinning he doth injury to God his mercifull father and in the most holy Christians this argument hath extraordinary force The sixth reason may be taken from the crosses of life Hath not every day his griefe Is there any estate or degree of men free from them Are not those whom God loves corrected yea and perhaps more than other men Seriously thinke of what thou dost suffer in thy particular What diseases or infirmities are in thy body What unquietnesse and vexation doest thou suffer in the house where thou livest What crosses doe follow or feare thee in thy calling Yea doth not thy religion breed thee trouble If the reproaches and oppositions be considered of which godly men somtimes suffer we might say with the Apostle Of all men they are most miserable 1. Cor. 15.19 Paul saith he was a man crucified while he lived Gal. 2.20 and did alwaies in his body carry about the dying of the Lord Iesus 2. Cor. 4.10 Besides consider of the danger of what may come upon thee in life What if war come or the pestilence or sudden poverty that cannot be cured or fearefull diseases that will fill thee with horrible paine Nay what if thou shouldest fall into some shamefull fault Oh what were the misery would follow upon it The seaventh reason may bee taken from the extreame vanity of those things that seeme to be felicities in life all the things in life that with any colour of reason can be made objects of thy love are either the people of the world or the commodtties of the world Now for the first of these thou hast no reason to be in love with life for the people of the world with whom thou livest for 1 Amongst all the thousands of men and women thou seest in the world it may bee there is scarce one that loveth thee entirely scarce one from whom thou maiest enjoy delight or comfort They are poore things thou canst have from the rest whether they be neighbours or strangers More then thou givest thou shalt not receive unlesse it be in poore complements of salutations and ceremonies of life 2 If thou didst excell in the priviledge of being loved by friends kindred wife or children yet reckon how smal a portion of thy life is refreshed from them there is sometimes more delight in one poore dreame than will be had this way in a long time 3 Thinke of it what changes and losses thou doest or maiest suffer if there were any thing worthy thy love in friendship or acquaintance thy friends may be daily lost either by the change of their mindes from thee or by distance in habitation or by death and the pleasure is had by thy acquaintance is made not worth the having either by interruption or by discord and taking of offence or want of power or will to helpe when thou hast most need 4 Who would not hate life for this very reason which I now give Let a man consider by experience in all others how little the world cares for him If thou wert to dye what would the world care or almost any in the world let it bee thy wife children neighbours hearers dearest friends yea thy religious friends what would any of these care for thy death Looke not at their words but note it in their deeds How few will be sorry for thee or for how short a time and how soone wilt thou bee cleane forgotten or how poore a thing is the greatest memory any man hath when he is dead Doest thou live to heare this and yet wilt be so mad as to love life for the love thou bearest to any other 5 The evill thou sufferest from the world is greater than the good thou canst get by it thinke of the reproaches injuries oppositions contempts persecutions infections thou maiest finde from unreasonable men How many thousand would triumph over thy poore fame if thy feete doe but slippe Lastly the company thou shalt have of Angells and spirits of just men in another world should make thee loath all these things in this life whether thou respect number or power or dearnesse in friends even in such as must be companions of thy life and therefore for the company that is in the world thou hast no reason to love life The commodities of the world are lands houses money honour credit beauty pleasure and the like now men have no cause to be so in love with these if they consider 1 How small a portion they have of these If a man had won the whole world and the glorie of it yet it were not worth the having if he must lose his owne soule Nay if it were all had upon the best conditions yet it would not make a man truely happy and therefore much lesse these silly parcells of the world wee can attaine to Eccles. 1.3 2 These are all common things and that in two respects first there is nothing new now to be had which hath not been had heeretofore ordinarily What is now hath beene before and will be afterwards Thou canst enjoy no felicity of life that can be proper to thy selfe Eccles. 1.9 10. 3.15 And then further all these things a fool may enjoy as well as a wise man and a wicked man as well as a godly man A man shall never know love or hatred by these things for they fall alike to all sorts of men Eccles. 2.14 3 All things are full of labour who can utter it If men doe reckon the paines and care and unquietnesse and wearinesse they are put to about the getting or keeping or using of these things they would finde little cause to love them especially considering that unto the use of the most of these is required a daily labour with toile that men that possesse these things cannot possesse themselves they are so overburthened with the cares and labours of life Eccles. 1.8 4 If a man had never so much of these things yet they cannot satisfie him his soule will not bee filled with good The eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the eare with hearing Hee that loveth silver shall

hates who●edome in men aswell as women But yet it is true that some sinnes as they are abominable in any so they are much more in women as wee see in swearing and drunkennesse so it is true of filthinesse in the woman and therefore the whorish woman is called a strange woman in the Proverbs But I thinke it is not safe to restraine the sense of this place or other the like places so but I take the meaning of the Apostle to be so to commend chastity in the wife as that which is necessary in all both men and women And so I come to consider of Chastity and so would shew first the motives to it secondly the meanes to preserve it and thirdly the way how Chastity may be manifested and made knowen to others For the first many things should perswade with a Christian to preserve chastity and to avoide whoredome and bodily lusts First it is the speciall will of God and a speciall part of their sanctification to avoide fornication 1. Thes 4.3 Secondly the promises of God all of them should allure men to perfect their holinesse and to avoide all filthinesse both of flesh and spirit 2. Cor. 7.1 Thirdly the hatefulnesse of the nature of the sinne of fornication and whoredome should deterre Christians from the committing of it This is an hainous crime an iniquity to bee punished by the Iudges Iob 31.11 These lusts are lusts of the Gentiles 1. Pet. 4.3 A sinne not so much as to be named amongst Christians Eph. 5.3 A sinne that utterly corrupts naturall honesty Pro. 6.27.29 It is a sinne not only against the soule but against the bodie of a man even that body that was bought with the blood of Iesus Christ and was made for God and is the Temple of the holy Ghost and is a member of Christ's mysticall body 1. Cor. 6.15 to the end Fourthly the consideration of the cause of this sin should abash men it is a work of the flesh even a fruit of a corrupted and filthy nature Gal. 5.22 Fiftly the effects of whoredome are very fearefull for it is a sinne that defiles a man Mat. 15. and it makes a man unfit for the company of any Christian 1. Cor. 5.9 It brings dishonour and a wound can never bee blotted out Prro 6.33 and it causes the fearefull curse of God upon men Heb. 13.4 and that both upon their states and soules in this life By meanes of a whorish woman a man may bee brought to a morsell of bread Pro. 6.26 It is a sin will root out all a mans increase Iob. 31.11.12 And upon the soule it brings a fearefull senselessenesse and disability to make use of the meanes of salvation Whoredome and wine take away the heart Hosea 4.11 and God casts them many times into a reprobate sense Rom. 1. so as they are past feeling Eph. 4.18 so as the adulterous person goeth about like a Foole ●o ●he slocks or like an Oxe to the slaughter Pro. 7.22 In a word the adulterous person destroieth his owne soule Pro. 6.32 yea which is worst of all it deprives men of the kingdome of Heaven 1. Cor. 6.9 and casts both body and soule into the Lake that burnes with fire and brimstone Pro. 9. ult Rev. 2● 8 22.15 For the second the meanes to preserve chastity in married persons are these First they must labour to excite and nourish matrimoniall love one to another Pro. 5.18.19 Secondly they must doe as Iob did make a covenant with their eyes and not carelesly give liberty to their senses to wander about after vaine objects Iob. 31.1 Thirdly they must store their heads and hearts with Gods words especially such words of God as doe give reasons and motives to disswade from this sinne Pro. 2.1.3.4.11.12.16.17 Psal. 119.9 Fourthly they must continually meditate of their mortality and that they are but strangers and pilgrims here and must come to judgement 1. Pet. 2.11 Eccles. 11.9 Fiftly they must by confession and godly sorrow and prayer crucifie these first risings of inward lusts and so by repentance for the lust of the heart prevent the filthinesse of the flesh Gal. 5.24 Sixthly they must walke in love that is exercise themselves in a Christian and profitable society with such as feare God Eph. 5.1.3.4 Lastly they must with all care and conscience avoide all the occasions of this sinne such as are 1 Idlenesse that sinne of Sodome Exech 46.49 2 Fulnesse of bread and drunkennesse as is noted in the same place They must beat downe their owne bodies 1. Cor. 9.27 3 The desire to be rich for the love of money breeds noisome lusts 1. Tim. 6.9 4 Ignorance of God and his truth Eph. 4.17.18 5 Evill company especially the society of such as are filthy 6 Lascivious attire and filthy dressing such as are strange colours and naked breasts This is whoredome between the breasts Hos. 2. 7 Lascivious pictures and prophane representations of filthie practises such as are exprest by those wicked Stage-Plaiers against which the very light of nature pleadeth 8 Chambering and wantonnesse and all provocations to lusts Rom. 13.13 For the third point if you aske how those hu●bands could behold the chast conversation of the wives I answer they might know that they were chast bo●h by their modesty in secret in the use of the marriage bed by their strict care to behave themselves modestly soberly abroad in the family or in other places by their great conscience to avoide all occasions of evill when they discerned that they did abhorre the society presence of light vain persons detested all the provocations to lust of what kind soever The next verse shewes one way how they may know they were chast even by their care to avoide pride and vanity in attire Such men as have wives that are proud and follow the fashion of the world in attire or delight in vaine company and haunt stage-plaies are fooles if they bee over-confident of their wives chastity unlesse it be in case of necessity where they want either beauty or temptation or opportunity And it is a probable argument of a chast minde in the wife when she keepes house and is diligent and carefull and painefull in the businesse of the family and desires to please her husband in all things and willing to be subject to his will Thus of a chast conversation A conversation with feare followes Some refer this fear to the carnall husbands make the sense thus While they with feare behold your chast conversation It is true that wicked men feele a great deale of feare many times in themselves when they look upon the godly and get the feare as the fruit of their watching and prying and observing That wicked men are smitten many times with feare many Scriptures shew as Deut. 28.10 1. Sam. 18.15 Psal. 102.15 The reasons why they are afraid are divers 1 Naturall conscience doth homage to the image of God stamped upon

God and walke in his waies 3 It greatly staies and supports the heart of man in the evill day when temptations or afflictions befall us yet the comfort of our assurance sustaines us and refresheth us greatly For helpe in the evill day the Apostle saith wee should above all things put on the shield of faith which if it remove not the crosse yet it quencheth the fiery temptations of Sathan with which we may be assaulted Eph. 6.16 and it greatly helpes us against the feare and terrour of death Heb. 10.19 20 22. In a word it overcomes the world 1. Iohn 5.4 5. 4 The faith of a Christian is all his living hee lives by faith in all the occasions of life as his faith helps him when all other meanes failes him and makes all other meanes more successfull when he useth them The just man lives by faith The people in captivity that were Gods children raised a living for themselves in a strange land by their faith Hab. 2.5 5 It puts life into all the duties of religion or righteousnesse it worketh by love it sets all our affections on worke towards God and his people and creatures Gal. 5.6 6 It opens a spring of grace in the heart of a Christian every good gift from above is excited and made to flow from within him by the benefit of his certaine knowledge and assurance of faith Iob. 7.38 Now if any aske how a Christian comes to know his calling I answer 1 By his sensible feeling of his sinnes to be a heavie burthen to him of which hee is truely weary so as hee desireth more to be rid of them than of any burthensome crosse whatsoever Mat. 11 2● 9.13 2 By his manner of receiving the voice of Christ and the preaching of the Gospell not in word but in power The voice of Christ hath a marvellous power over him above all things in the world which appeares by the effects of it For he feeles in hearing the word first such an estimation of it as he acknowledgeth nothing like it for power and wisdome 1. Cor. 1.23 24. Secondly he finds at sometimes especially such an assurance of the truth of his religion and the doctrine hee heareth that he is fully established and ●●eed from his naturall uncertainties about the true religion Thirdly the Word worketh in him spirituall senses and very life from the dead which hee feeles in all parts of his conversation making conscience of his waies in all things bewailing his frailties and striving to be such as God would have him to be Fourthly it makes him to separate himselfe from the world avoiding all needlesse society with the wicked and exciting in him constant desires to use the world as if he used it not Fiftly much spirituall joy before the Lord even then when in respect of outward things he is in much affliction The most of these effects are noted 1. Thes. 1.4 5. 3 By the Image of the vertues of Christ in his heart by new gifts in some measure for when God calls a man he reveales his Sonne in him Gal. 1.15 16. There is begotten in him a likenesse of Christ his very disposition is changed into the similitude of the vertues of Christ God gives him a new heart with the Image of Christ stamped upon it and hee is like Christ in respect of lowlinesse of minde and meeknesse and contempt of the world and love of God and the godly mercy wisdome patience love of his very enemies and desire to live without offence and praying to God as to his father Quest. But if Christians may know their calling what should be the reason that so many Christians are so unsetled and are not assured of their calling Ans. Distinguish of Christians some are Christians in name and outward profession but not in deed beeing not at all converted though they have the meanes of conversion and this is the estate of the most men and women in all places Now some are indeede converted but are weake Christians as it were infants that lye but in the cradle of religion Now for the first sort the answer is easie They know not their calling because they are not called yea they are so far from knowing it that they generally are offended at it that we should teach that any body can know his owne calling certainly Carnall Christians then know it not because they have it not and in particular the causes why these Christians attaine not assurance is because they rest upon common hope of mercy in God which house is but like the house of a Spider and will give up the ghost when the evill day commeth upon them And besides they live in knowne sinnes which they love and preferre before all things can bee offered to them by the Gospell Now it is impossible to have true assurance and to lye at the same time in knowne grosse sinnes without repentance And further many Christians by their wilfull unteachablenesse and incurablenesse in sinning doe so provoke God that all meanes notwithstanding yet those things that concerne their peace are hidden from their eies Luk. 19.42 Now for the weake Christian the causes of his want of assurance are such as these Sometimes ill opinions about assurance either that it may not be had contrary to the charge given 2. Pet. 1.10 or if it be had it will not bee profitable contrary to the reasons given before Sometimes it is their ignorance they are so unexpert in the Scriptures that not discerning the frame of godlinesse in generall they can never tell when they fully know this or any other doctrine in particular And this let is the stronger when they smother their doubts and will not aske the way or seek resolution in things they understand not especially in cases of their owne consciences In some Christians this want of assurance ariseth from meare slothfulnesse though they bee often called upon and convinced yet they returne to their former carelesnesse and will not bee at the paines to use the directions given them for the setling of their hearts In some Christians it is a violent pronenesse in their natures to take offence at such infirmities or mistakings as they observe in such as have professed religion before them yea sometimes they take offence at the liberty of those that are truly godly though they abuse not their libertie And this offence is sometimes so deadly that they give way to the projects of renouncing of all religion because they have observed such things in those that professe religion As in the primitive church many Christians took grievous offence at other Christians for the use of their liberty in things indifferent so as the Apostle was affraid they would fall away and perish in their scandalls Lastly some Christians are not setled because when the evill day comes upon them they cast away their confidence and strive to thinke that because God afflicteth them therefore they are not his being for the

of it 58 Attire vitious 14 waies 63 B Blessing kinds thereof 204 Blessings how inherited 214 How they may be gotten 216 How grow in comforts of them 217 Brethren who are so 189 Motives to love as Brethren 190 Brethren how to be loved 191 Rules for brotherly love 193 Brethren how to bee respected in case of sinne 194 C Calling to Christianity 205 Necessity of knowing it 208 Chastity in married persons 44 Motives thereto 45 Preservatives of Chastity 46 How a Chaste wife may be discerned 47 Christians divers sorts of them 209 Church of Rome not to be agreed unto 187 Cohabitation of husbands and wives 114 Compassion 188 What bowells of Compassion import 196 How Compassion rightly ordered 196 Conversion why all not at once converted 31 Corruptible things 71 Courtesie 199 D Daies evill in what respect 229 Daies good in what respect 232 Discords in opinions 184 Causes thereof 185 Divorce 118 Doing well 107 Motives thereto 107 E Earthly things vaine 224 Why they are not to bee loved 226 Example Two vertues of good example 88 How example bindos 90 F Feare of God how shewed 52 Motives to Feare 51 Feare how discerned 50 Feare servile of wicked 48 Who are without Feare 54 Frowardnesse the causes and effects thereof 80 G Good actions how marred 106 Grace manifold 163 What Grace excludes and includes 165 Graces previledge 166 Who sinne against Grace 168 Guile Signes of spirit without Guile 19 H Heart See Man of the heart Heires to Gods Saints 132 Markes of Heires 136 How to carry themselves 138 Men women all Heires 169 Husbands to live quietly with wives 2 Sixteene motives thereto 3 Helpes thereto 6 Causes of disorder betwixt them 5 Husbands duties why in the last place 111 Motives for Husbands to doe their dutie 112 Husbands to dwell with their wives 114 Cases for absence 115 Separation vnlawfull 116 Husbands must dwell with knowledge 123 Husbands must honour their wives 126 I Incorruptible things 73 Ioy spirituall 156 K Knowledge divine excellent 119 Meanes of making Knowledg powerfull 121 How man dwells with Knowledge 123 Properties and effects of Knowledge 144 L Life naturall 224 A meane thing 139 Life spirituall 141 Degrees of it 141 Originall of it 144 Nature of it 144 Nourishers of it 147 Difference betwixt spirituall and eternall life 149 How spirituall life is attained 157 Helpes thereto 158 Signes therof 160 Properties thereof 161 Duties required by vertue of spirituall life 162 Life of man short 234 Love of Life 223 How life to be prolonged 228 Love See Brethren M Man of the heart 66 Wherein he excells the outward Man 67 His naturall condition 68 How he ma be mended 69 How knowne to be right 70 Meckenesse what requisite thereto 76 Helpes to attaine it 81 Minde All of one minde 180 Helpes thereto 182 Miseries of life how avoided 219 N Nullities of Mariage 116 O Obedience six things required thereto 25 Old times what respect to be had thereto 92 P Peace 155 Pittie Motives thereto 168 See Compassion Pleasing God rules for it 84 Praiers excellency 171 Sorts of Praiers 173 How praier is hindred or interrupted 174 Pure how Saints are so stiled 40 Q Quietnesse See Meekenesse How kept quiet in trouble 177 R Repetition of the same things what imported thereby 9 Revenge 201 Revolting causes thereof 17 Righteousnesse 154 S Salvation how furthered 34 Sarah's Daughters 103 Scripture Gods Word 22 See Word Separation betwixt man and wife 116 Spirituall life See Life Subjection of Wives 1● See Wives T Trust in God Signes thereof 95 Excellency of it 97 Effects of it 97 Rules about it 99 V Vnitie of minde See Minde W Winning men 29 Divers waies thereof 17 Signes of being wonne 18 Divers kinds of Winning 27 How Ministers win Soules 29 How wicked wonne by our conversation 36 How Wives may winne their Husbands 37 WIVES See Husbands See Women Why Wives dueties largely set downe 8 Why Wives ought to be subiect 12 In What Wives are subiect 13 How Wives must be subiect 14 Sonnes of Wives against subiection 15 Wives how they may win their husbands 37 Wives Chastity how seens 47 Wives feare of husbands 55 Wives amazement how caused 109 Women See Wives Women ought first to bee taught their duty 7 Womens frailties 129 Word of God to be obeyed 23 See Scripture FINIS Generall scope Note 16. motives for man and wife to live quietly and comfortably together Vsc. Five speciall causes of disorder betweene man and wife Helpes for man and wife to attaine an orderly and quiet life Reasons to prove that women ought to be taught their duties aswell as men Why the Apostle is so large in setting downe wives duties What things are imported by often repeating of them Note 8. reasons why wives ought to be subject Why the Apostle chargeth wives only with subjection In what things they are to be subject The maner how they must submit In wht cases the wife ought to subject her selfe Particular sinnes of the Wife against subjection Divers waies of winnnig men Note Causes of revolting in many are divers 9 signes to know whether w● be wonne effectually 6. things required to sound obedience Divers kinds of winning Note What a Minister must doe to winne soules To be wonne what it imports Note Why all are not converted at once Divers waies from God to further our salvation Doct. ● By what meanes we may winne wicked men in our conversation What things a wife must especially practise to winne her husband Note Vse In what respects godly men are said to be pure Vse Note Motives to chastity Preservatives of chastity How a chast wife may be discerned Reasons why wicked men are smitten with a servile feare Feare two waies considered Reasons why we ought to express this feare of God in our conversation By what waies we must shew this feare of God By what waies we are to expresse this feare of God towards men What sorts of men have not Gods feare Wherein wives shew their fear of their husbands 11. Reasons against vaine attire in women 14. Waies by which apparell or dressing our selves becomes vicious What the man of the heart is His originall Wherein bee excells the outward man His naturall condition very miserable many waies Especially in his workes which are abominable By what means the man of the heart may be mended How we may know when the man of the heart is right Note 7. Things are incorruptible Note What things are requisite to meeknesse Motives to meeknesse Odiousnesse of frowardnesse from the causes and effects of it Helpes for the attaining of quietnesse and meeknesse Rules for our practise so as God may be pleased with us Note ●●o singular ●ertues in a ●ood example ●hen an exam●●e bindes In what things Antiquity is ill pleaded In what cases respect is to be bad unto old times Signes of such as trust in God Reasons proving the excellency of this trusting in God Admirable effects