A17384:2488
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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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.
Now that the godly Princes have had power in these and the like cases about Religion, is plain: Moses by the appointment of God gave order to Aaron and the people, in the business of Religion: Joshua appoints circumcision, Josh. 5. proclaims the Law of God, Joshua 8. Renews the covenant with God, Josh. 24. David disposeth of the officers about the tabernacle, 1. Chron. 23. and brings home the ark, 2. King. 6. Solomon dedicated the temple: Asa the king made such a Law as this, that whosoever would not seek the God of Israel, should die: Hezekiah brake down the brazen Serpent,