A17384:2487
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, he may, and ought to provide to the uttermost of his power, that the Churches may be furnished with able Ministers, and that they likewise may have power to call and ordain other Ministers, and dispose, or depose, as may be best for the good of the Church.
Secondly, he may, and ought to prouide to the vttermost of his power, that the Churches may be furnished with able Ministers, and that they likewise may haue power to call and ordaine other Ministers, and dispose, or depose, as may bee best for the good of the Church.
Thirdly, he may, and ought to provide by his Laws, and order, that the Word of God may be sincerely and purely taught, and the Sacraments rightly administered, and the censures of the Church executed according to the Word.
Thirdly, hee may, and ought to prouide by his Lawes, and order, that the Word of God may be sincerely and purely taught, and the Sacraments rightly administred, and the censures of the Church executed according to the Word.
Fourthly, he may, and ought by his Laws to forbid, and accordingly to punish blasphemies, heresies, Idolatry, Sacrilege, and the like.
Fourthly, hee may, and ought by his Lawes to forbid, and accordingly to punish blasphemies, heresies, Idolatry, Sacriledge, and the like.