A17384:2882
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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Thus of the first doctrine.
Doct. 2. Secondly, we may hence learn, that it is an excellent freedom to be Gods servant. They are all freemen that serve God, as the coherence shows. No freemen can enjoy better privileges then Gods servants do, and never were there any servants that enjoyed such prerogatives as Gods servants do; and this may appear many ways: for,
Doct. 2. Secondly, we may hence learne, that it is an excellent freedome to be Gods seruant. They are all freemen that serue God, as the coherence shewes. No freemen can enioy better priuiledges then Gods seruants doe, and neuer were there any seruants that enioyed such prerogatiues as Gods seruants doe; and this may appeare many waies: for,
1First, all sorts of men are Gods servants. All his subjects are his servants, Psal. 135.14. yea all his sons are servants: yea Christ himself, Isaiah. 42. all his elect are servants, yea his friends are his servants▪ so Abraham, that had the honour to be the friend of God, accounted it no disparagement to be Gods servant: the Kings of the earth accounted it to be the best part of their title, to be Gods servants, Psal. 36.1. All which proves, that it is a ⟨p. 691⟩most free and honourable estate to be servant unto God: else those eminent persons would never have sought them out such a service: and this is the more evident, because God accepteth not of persons, but the poorest Christian may be as well entertained of God, as any of those States,