A17384:1336
A commentary
A commentary: or, sermons upon the second chapter of the first epistle of Saint Peter wherein method, sense, doctrine, and use, is, with great variety of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of divinity largely discussed. By Nicholas Byfield, late preacher of God's Word at Isle-worth in Middlesex.A commentary: or, sermons vpon the second chapter of the first epistle of Saint Peter vvherein method, sense, doctrine, and vse, is, with great variety of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of diuinity largely discussed. By Nicholas Byfield, late preacher of God's Word at Isle-worth in Middlesex.
London: printed by Humphrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623London: printed by Humfrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623
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Fourthly, by their contentation. What should they fear? or what should discontent them? Hath not GOD given them a Kingdom, and great glory?
Fourthly, by their contentation. What should they fear? or what should discontent them? Hath not GOD giuen them a Kingdome, and great glory?
Fifthly, by subduing carnal and servile fears of men: Why should Christians fear the faces of great men on earth? are they not spiritual Kings themselves? and is not the breath in the nostrils of the greatest men on earth? why art thou then afraid to come before them? &c.
Fiftly, by subduing carnall and seruile feares of men: Why should Christians fear the faces of great men on earth? are they not spirituall Kings themselues? and is not the breath in the nostrils of the greatest men on earth? why art thou then afraid to come before them? &c.
Priest-hood.]