A17384:2446
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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They object again, and say, that it is absurd, the sheep should rule and judge the shepherd: Princes are but sheep; and Priests are the shepherds.
They obiect again, and say, that it is absurd, the sheep should rule and iudge the shepheard: Princes are but sheep; and Priests are the shepheards.
Answer. Magistrates are not sheep in all things, but in spiritual things, in matters of faith; and so Ministers are shepherds to feed their souls: but, in civill things, the Magistrate is the shepherd; and the Clergy-men sheep, because citizens or subjects.
Answer. Magistrates are not sheep in all things, but in spirituall things, in matters of faith; and so Ministers are shepheards to feed their soules: but, in ciuill things, the Magistrate is the shepheard; and the Clergy-men sheep, because citizens or subiects.
But they say, that Clergy-men are freed by privilege from the Emperors, and by the Laws of the Empire.
But they say, that Clergy-men are freed by priuiledge from the Emperors, and by the Lawes of the Empire.