A17384:2902
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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Verse 17. Honour all men: love the brother-hood: fear God: honour the King.
Verse 17. Honour all men: loue the brother-hood: feare God: honour the King.
These words are the conclusion of his exhortation to Subjects. Wherein the Apostle doth not only repeat the substance of a Subject's duty to his Sovereign; but withal, doth summarily commend unto them the description of an absolute Subject or Citizen in all his relations, and tells them in a few words, what would make a Christian, living in humane societies, eminent for exactness of his behaviour: for he, in these words, forms him in his carriage to all men, to good men, to God, and to the King. And so his Charge enjoins,
THese words are the conclusion of his exhortation to Subiects. Wherein the Apostle doth not onely repeat the substance of a Subiect's duty to his Soueraigne; but withall, doth summarily commend vnto them the description of an absolute Subiect or Citizen in all his relations, and tells them in a few words, what would make a Christian, liuing in humane societies, eminent for exactnes of his behauiour: for he, in these words, forms him in his carriage to all men, to good men, to God, and to the King. And so his Charge enioins,
First, courtesy to all men.
First, courtesie to all men.