A17384:2431
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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Sol. He was not angry with them for desiring Governors, for they had Governors before sent of God, and the very king they had afterward, God gave them him, Hos. 13.8. but he was angry for the cause of their request. Their faith and hope was in a manner spent, and they conceived more hope in a King, then in God that had been such a King to them so many years. 2. Men must be subject, because God hath taken mens consciences ⟨p. 567⟩bound to subjection, Rom. 13. 3. Because kings are heads of the people, and therefore as members, it is agreeable that they should submit, and be ruled and guided. 4. In respect of the benefit men receive by Magistrates, both in outward things, and in matters of religion. For outward things, men enjoy public peace and quietness, and protection by the help of the power of the Magistrate: And for matters of Religion, earthly Common-wealths are as it were Inns to lodge the Church in, and Princes power affords protection, so as Christians may more safely follow their calling; and if they be godly Kings, they are the very nurses of Religion. And thus of the reasons.
Sol. Hee was not angry with them for desiring Gouernours, for they had Gouernours before sent of God, and the very king they had afterward, God gaue them him, Hos. 13.8. but hee was angry for the cause of their request. Their faith and hope was in a manner spent, and they conceiued more hope in a King, then in God that had beene such a King to them so many yeares. 2. Men must be subiect, because God hath taken mens consciences ⟨p. 567⟩bound to subiection, Rom. 13. 3. Because kings are heads of the people, and therfore as members, it is agreeable that they should submit, and bee ruled and guided. 4. In respect of the benefit men receiue by Magistrates, both in outward things, and in matters of religion. For outward things, men enioy publike peace and quietnesse, and protection by the helpe of the power of the Magistrate: And for matters of Religion, earthly Common-wealths are as it were Innes to lodge the Church in, and Princes power affords protection, so as Christians may more safely follow their calling; and if they bee godly Kings, they are the very nurses of Religion. And thus of the reasons.