A17384:2639
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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8. That a Magistrate that punisheth sins, doth but execute the commission he received from God; he was sent of God to that end, and therefore may comfort himself in the Lord, how ill soever his execution of justice be spoken of among men.
8. That a Magistrate that punisheth sinnes, doth but execute the commission hee receiued from God; hee was sent of God to that end, and therefore may comfort himselfe in the Lord, how ill soeuer his execution of iustice bee spoken of among men.
Thus of the punishment of evil doers.
Thus of the punishment of euill doers.
The second end of the sending of Magistrates, ⟨p. 621⟩is for the praise of them that do well.
The second end of the sending of Magistrates, ⟨p. 621⟩is for the praise of them that doe well.