A17384:2669
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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Fifthly, to live in peace, and stand to be quiet, and meddle with our own business, and to be a peace-maker, wins a great deal of praise, 1. Thes. 4.11. Math. 5.9.
Fiftly, to liue in peace, and stand to bee quiet, and meddle with our owne busines, and to be a peace-maker, winnes a great deal of praise, 1. Thes. 4.11. Math. 5.9.
Sixthly, to be exactly just in mens dealings, and true in his words and contracts, this will make men ⟨p. 629⟩abound with blessings. The word is praises, as it is in other places translated, Prou. 28.20.
Sixtly, to bee exactly iust in mens dealings, and true in his words and contracts, this wil make men ⟨p. 629⟩abound with blessings. The word is praises, as it is in other places translated, Prou. 28.20.
Seventhly, to be courteous, is to be amiable, so as it be done without affectation, and not directed for thy own ends, and not done with dissimulation.