A17384:2405
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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Verse 13. Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake: whether to the King, as superior:
Verse 13. Submit your selues to euery ordinance of man for the Lords sake: whether to the King, as superior:
From the 13 Verse of the first Chapter, to the 9 Verse of the third Chapter, is contained matter of exhortation: and the exhortation is either general or special. The general exhortation concerns all Christians, and hath been set down from the 13 Verse of the first Chapter, to the end of the 11 Verse of this second Chapter. Now those words, and those that follow, to the 9 Verse of the next Chapter, contain special exhortations which concern some Christians only, namely, subjects, servants, wives, and husbands. Of the duty of subjects he entreats from Verse 13, to Verse 18: Of the duty of servants, from Verse 18, to the end of this Chapter: of the duty of wives, in the seven first Verses of the third Chapter: and of the duty of husbands in the eighth Verse of that Chapter.
FRom the 13 Verse of the first Chapter, to the 9 Verse of the third Chapter, is contained matter of exhortation: and the exhortation is either generall or speciall. The generall exhortation concernes all Christians, and hath beene set downe from the 13 Verse of the first Chapter, to the end of the 11 Verse of this second Chapter. Now those words, and those that follow, to the 9 Verse of the next Chapter, containe speciall exhortations which concerne some Christians onely, namely, subiects, seruants, wiues, and husbands. Of the duty of subiects he entreats from Verse 13, to Verse 18: Of the duty of seruants, from Verse 18, to the end of this Chapter: of the duty of wiues, in the seuen first Verses of the third Chapter: and of the duty of husbands in the eightth Verse of that Chapter.