A17384:2678
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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IN these words is contained the second argument taken from the will of God. God is specially desirous, that Christians should do all the good they can, and in particular should be careful to obey the Magistrates, because by that means they may confute such ill-minded men, as are apt to speak evil of religion: so that the words contain a choice rule prescribed unto Christians, to be carefully observed.
IN these words is contayned the second argument taken from the will of God. God is specially desirous, that Christians should doe all the good they can, and in particular should bee carefull to obey the Magistrates, because by that meanes they may confute such ill-minded men, as are apt to speake euil of religion: so that the words containe a choice rule prescribed vnto Christians, to bee carefully obserued.
In which rule consider, First, the authority of it, So is the will of God. Secondly, the matter of it, well-doing. Thirdly, the end, which is, the silencing of wicked men.
For.]
This word For, seems to give a reason (not of what went next before in the former verse, but) of the exhortation to Christians, as they are subjects; showing the happy effect of well-doing in general, and in particular, of their submission to Magistrates, and how orderly and profitably their life should be, as they are good Subjects, and serviceable to the Common-wealth.