A17384:2617
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Uses. The uses are divers; some particular, some general: In particular it should teach us,
Vses. The vses are diuers; some particular, some generall: In particular it should teach vs,
First, by prayer to s•eke Magistrates of God: subjects may get great blessings of this kind, if they would pray hard for them. For GOD it is that sends Magistrates.
First, by praier to s•eke Magistrates of God: subiects may get great blessings of this kind, if they would pray hard for them. For GOD it is that sends Magistrates.
Secondly, with patience to bear the wrongs of evil Magistrates, seeing there is a hand of God in it.
Secondly, with patience to beare the wrongs of euil Magistrates, seeing there is a hand of God in it.
Thirdly, with thankfulness to give the praise to God for good Magistrates, seeing it was he that sent them, as a common blessing.