A17384:2919
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First, the one is, that they never justify the wicked, nor condemn the righteous, Prou. 17.15.
First, the one is, that they neuer iustify the wicked, nor condemne the righteous, Prou. 17.15.
Love the Brother-hood.]
Loue the Brother-hood.]
The second thing requisite to the framing of a complete citizen, or subject, is the soundness of his affection or carriage towards such, as be religious in the Common-weal where he lives. The brother-hood is the society, or company of so many as are true Christians in the place of a mans abode or acquaintance: that which is required, is,