A17384:2438
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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First, it was Christ's main intendment to form a spiritual Kingdom to God: he left the state of earthly kingdoms to the condition they were in before.
First, it was Christ's main intendment to forme a spirituall Kingdome to God: hee left the state of earthly kingdomes to the condition they were in before.
Secondly, when the Apostles do in the general require the submission of Christians to their Magistrates, without exception of their obedience in war or otherwise, it is manifest, that they leave them to the laws of nature, and the Laws of God before.
Secondly, when the Apostles doo in the generall require the submission of Christians to their Magistrates, without exception of their obedience in war or otherwise, it is manifest, that they leaue them to the lawes of nature, and the Laws of God before.
Thirdly, even in the new Testament this is implied by John Baptist's answer to the soldiers, Luke 3.14. and the praises of those worthy warriors, Heb. 11.33, 34. (In which place also is a manifest proof for subjection, even in our bodies, to the Sentences of Magistrates, whether just or unjust.) And the Magistrate's sword, Rom. 13.4. is not only a sword of justice upon malefactors in his own Land; but of revenge on the enemies of God, or the Church, or Common-wealth abroad. And for that Saying of our Saviour to Peter, He that taketh ⟨p. 571⟩