A17384:2461
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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Secondly, say that he is in these words condemned, as a hunter, that is a tyrant, as the word is taken, Lament. 3.5. Jerem. 16.16. Ezech. 32.30. &c, and that it is added, Before the Lord, to note, that he did oppress men by manifest violence openly, shaking off all fear even of God himself; yet it follows not, that his power was not of God: the manner of getting it, was evil, but the power was good.
Secondly, say that hee is in these words condemned, as a hunter, that is a tyrant, as the word is taken, Lament. 3.5. Ierem. 16.16. Ezech. 32.30. &c, and that it is added, Before the Lord, to note, that hee did oppresse men by manifest violence openly, shaking off all feare euen of God himselfe; yet it followes not, that his power was not of God: the manner of getting it, was euill, but the power was good.
Thirdly, it will not follow, that Magistracy is evil, or not of God, because it had an ill beginning, if it were granted, that it did begin in Nimrod: For so the translation of Joseph into Egypt, and the Kingdom of Saul, and Jeroboam, &c. should be evil, and not of God: for they had ill beginnings.
Thirdly, it wil not follow, that Magistracy is euil, or not of God, because it had an ill beginning, if it were graunted, that it did begin in Nimrod: For so the translation of Ioseph into Aegypt, and the Kingdome of Saul, and Ieroboam, &c. should bee euill, and not of God: for they had ill beginnings.