A17384:2634
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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3 The third doctrine, which may be noted from hence, is; That all evil doers are to be punished without respect of persons; they are to look upon mens works, and not on their persons: great men must be punished, if they be evil doers, as well as poor men; many men, as well as one man: yea, if good men do evil, they must bear the punishment of their sin; Christians, as well as Pagans.
3 The third doctrine, which may bee noted from hence, is; That all euill doers are to be punished without respect of persons; they are to looke vpon mens workes, and not on their persons: great men must bee punished, if they bee euill doers, as well as poore men; many men, as well as one man: yea, if good men do euill, they must beare the punishment of their sinne; Christians, as well as Pagans.
4. That evil doers are not accounted safe members of any society, and therefore are distinguished from good subjects, as not fit to be of that order.
4. That euill doers are not accounted safe members of any society, and therefore are distinguished from good subiects, as not fit to bee of that order.
5. That such as transgress the laws of men, are accounted by the Apostle evil doers, as well as such as transgress the Laws of God: for, he here speaks especially of such as are evil doers in respect of humane ordinances: which may be a warning to such as securely live in the transgression of the ⟨p. 620⟩commandments of Christian Magistrates: and withal, it may impair the honour of their condition, that live in the breach of the laws of God without repentance: For, if it be so hateful a thing to be a breaker of the laws of men; in what case are they in, that have so grossly broken the Laws of God?