A17384:2977
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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Fourthly, it will be manifest, that our obedience flows from the true fear of God, if we will obey against our profit, or ease, or credit, or our own carnal reasons or affections. Hereby the Lord said, he knew that Abraham feared him, because he spared not his own son, &c. Gen. 22.12.
Fourthly, it will be manifest, that our obedience flowes from the true feare of God, if we will obey against our profit, or ease, or credit, or our owne carnall reasons or affections. Hereby the Lord said, he knew that Abraham feared him, because he spared not his owne sonne, &c. Gen. 22.12.
And thus of the fear of God. The last part of the charge concerns our loyalty to the King.
And thus of the feare of God. The last part of the charge concernes our loyalty to the King.
Honour the King.]
The Apostle intends in these words, but briefly, to urge the practice of their duty, urged in the exhortation, Verse 13. save that the terms have something in them of explication of that doctrine, and something for confirmation: For we must honour the King,