A commentary

Name: A commentary
Author: Nicholas Byfield

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.

Nicholas Byfield 1579–1622London: printed by Humphrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623London: printed by Humfrey Lownes for George Latham, 1623

[16], 922, [6] p. · 245k words · STC 4211 · ESTC S107078

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AN EXPOSITION of the Second Chapter of the first Epistle general o… › Verse 13. Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lord…: Verse 13. Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake: whether to t…AN EXPOSITION of the Second Chapter of the first Epistle generall o… › Verse 13. Submit your selues to euery ordinance of man for the Lord…: Verse 13. Submit your selues to euery ordinance of man for the Lords sake: whether to t…

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Secondly, the excellency of Kings: both these tend to work in man the care of obedience to them and their Laws.

Secondly, the excellency of Kings: both these tend to work in man the care of obedience to them and their Lawes.

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Thirdly, the indefinite manner of propounding the term; showing, that this submission belongs to all Kings.

Thirdly, the indefinite manner of propounding the tearm; shewing, that this submission belongs to all Kings.

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Fourthly, the uses of all.

Fourthly, the vses of all.

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¹For the first. It is not unprofitable to consider how men came, by degrees, at length to subject themselves to this government of Kings.

¹For the first. It is not vnprofitable to consider how men came, by degrees, at length to subiect themselues to this gouernment of Kings.

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