A17384:2450
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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Thus of the third point.
Fourthly, when he saith, Submit your selves: he doth not require them to submit those things to the pleasure of the Magistrate which are not theirs. Every godly Christian hath some things which are not his own, but Gods, and those he must not subject to the will of Princes: As his Religion, his faith, the Word of God, the Sacraments, his prayers: for those are none of Caesars, and therefore must not be given to Caesar.
Fourthly, when hee saith, Submit your selues: he doth not require them to submit those things to the pleasure of the Magistrate which are not theirs. Euery godly Christian hath some things which are not his owne, but Gods, and those hee must not subiect to the will of Princes: As his Religion, his faith, the Word of God, the Sacraments, his prayers: for those are none of Caesars, and therefore must not bee giuen to Caesar.
Thus of who, or what must be submitted.
To every ordinance of man.]
To euery ordinance of man.]