A17384:2173
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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Lastly, evil must never be spoken of them for welldoing: no man may dare to call good, evil.
Lastly, euill must neuer bee spoken of them for weldoing: no man may dare to call good, euill.
Otherwise in things that are apparently evil, they may be reproved by Magistrates, or Ministers, or Parents, or Masters: yea and by any that is able to admonish, so as their sins be not spoken of with hatred or mere desire to disgrace them.
Otherwise in things that are apparantly euill, they may bee reproued by Magistrates, or Ministers, or Parents, or Masters: yea and by any that is able to admonish, so as their sinnes bee not spoken of with hatred or meere desire to disgrace them.
The uses of all this are for instruction, and so both to wicked men and godly men. And so it is needful to be attended, because all of us either do reproach, or are reproached.
The vses of all this are for instruction, and so both to wicked men and godly men. And so it is needefull to bee attended, because all of vs either doe reproach, or are reproached.