A17384:2608
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, this should confirm every good subject, to acknowledge and maintain the Kings ⟨p. 612⟩[…] ⟨p. 613⟩[…] ⟨p. 614⟩supremacy, and willingly to bind himself thereunto by oath: For the oath of supremacy is the bond of this subjection, and this oath men must take without equivocation, mental evasion, or secret reservation, yea it should bind in them the same resolution was in Saint Barnard:1 who saith thus: If all the world would conspire against me, to make me complot any thing against the Kings Majesty: yet I would fear God, and not dare to offend the King ordained of God.
Secondly, this should confirme euery good subiect, to acknowledge and maintaine the Kings ⟨p. 612⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 613⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 614⟩supremacy, and willingly to bind himselfe therevnto by oath: For the oath of supremacy is the bond of this subiection, and this oath men must take without equiuocation, mentall euasion, or secret reseruation, yea it should bind in them the same resolution was in Saint Barnard:1 who saith thus: If all the world would conspire against mee, to make mee complot any thing against the Kings Maiesty: yet I would feare God, and not dare to offend the King ordained of God.
- 1Bernard. Epist. 170.