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A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written
A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas AdamsA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas Adams
London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Jacob Bloome, 1633London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Iacob Bloome, 1633
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.
The Lord.] One that by just right challengeth their service. Not a creature, yet the natural man will not deny his own horse or dog that hath done him service. A man will not deny his own house: wilt thou Agnoscere domum, & rejicere Dominem; Acknowledge thy house, and deny thy Master, thy Maker? Not a servant: Philemon would not deny Onesimus a runagate servant, when Paul had written for him: wilt thou Praeponere servum tuum Domino tuo; Prefer thy servant before thy Lord? not a friend:1 he is a prodigy that denies his friend. Nabal was branded for a Churl, because he showed not kindness to David his friend: and such a friend as protected him, his whole family, his substance, 1 Sam. 25.15. It goes near when a mans own familiar friend shall do him a mischief; This Absalom objects to Hushai; Is this thy kindness to thy friend? 2Indeed men are sometimes so drunk with the honours of this world, that they forget their friends. Like as I have heard of a Lawyer, that pleaded a case very strongly on the one side, yet before the trial of it being advanced to the Bench, adjudged it on the other: yet thus answered all imputation; I spake then as an advocate for my client, I speak now as a Judge of the cause. Or as when another challenged his friend; You were wont to visit me every day, now you keep at distance: he plainly answered; I then needed you, now I am afraid you will need me. A good man would not thus use his friend, but is there any friend like the Lord? Not a Father, how unnatural is it for the fruit to deny the tree? and to forget the rock whence he was hewen? Solomon a King did not despise his mother, but set her at his right hand. There is nothing but the love of the Lord Jesus must make a man leave his parents, Luke 14.26. Indeed a man is bound to forsake his father and mother to adhere to his wife, Mat. 19.5. But this is to be understood with a limitation, if the competition be unpossible. But for Christ, Hearken O daughter, forget thine own people, and thy fathers house, Psal. 45.10