A17384:2436
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Yourselves.]
Yourselues.]
These words may note either the manner of our submission, or the matter: the manner, thus, Submit your selves: that is, yield obedience uncompelled, do it of your selves, stay not till you be forced to do it: and so the Apostle should thereby import, that our submission even to men should be performed willingly, and so we should willingly and cheerfully obey their laws, honour and defend their persons, pray for them to God, yield them tribute; yea, we should without murmuring submit our selves to their punishments, yea, cheerfully bear their injuries; and so it removes grudging and force from our submission. But I rather understand the words to note the matter to be submitted, & that is our selves, not our goods only for tribute or custom, but our persons also must be at the Princes service, our very bodies must be submitted ⟨p. 570⟩both to do the labour that belongs to the bearing of any office for the public good, and to the enduring of any punishment, by the laws to be inflicted upon the body, and to the employing of the body and life in defence of the true Religion, and of the Kings person, law, and desire, in war or otherwise. This is manifest by the frequent wars in the old Testament, both required and performed: nor may any say, that Christians in the new Testament are not charged in the business of war; for,
These words may note either the manner of our submission, or the matter: the manner, thus, Submit your selues: that is, yeeld obedience vncompelled, doe it of your selues, stay not till you be forced to doe it: and so the Apostle should therby import, that our submission euen to men should be performed willingly, and so wee should willingly and cheerefully obey their laws, honor and defend their persons, pray for them to God, yeeld them tribute; yea, wee should without murmuring submit our selues to their punishments, yea, cheerfully beare their iniuries; and so it remoues grudging and force from our submission. But I rather vnderstand the words to note the matter to bee submitted, & that is our selues, not our goods only for tribute or custom, but our persons also must be at the Princes seruice, our very bodies must be submitted