A17384:2579
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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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.
- 1Original of Kings.Originall of Kings.
1First, man, by the instinct of God, and by the nature given him, tends to society: of all creatures, man is unaptest to live alone: mans language shows, that he was made to society: and mans disposition shows, that it likes not any estate that must be removed from the knowledge and conversation of other men. He that can live without society, is either better than a man, as is GOD; or worse than a man, as is a beast.
1First, man, by the instinct of God, and by the nature giuen him, tends to society: of all creatures, man is vnaptest to liue alone: mans language shewes, that he was made to society: and mans disposition shews, that it likes not any estate that must be remoued from the knowledge and conuersation of other men. He that can liue without society, is either better than a man, as is GOD; or worse than a man, as is a beast.
- 1Homo natura est animal politicum.