A17384:2980
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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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, ⟨p. 711⟩1. In our hearts. 2. In our words. 3. In our works.
The Apostle intends in these words, but briefely, to vrge the practice of their duty, vrged in the exhortation, Verse 13. saue that the tearmes haue something in them of explication of that doctrine, and something for confirmation: For we must honour the King, ⟨p. 711⟩1. In our hearts. 2. In our words. 3. In our workes.
First, we must honour him in our hearts, and show it two ways.
First, we must honor him in our hearts, and shew it two waies.
1. We must not curse the King, no not in secret; no not in our thoughts: We must not entertain impatient and vile thoughts of the King, but, from our hearts, esteem him for his greatness, authority, and gifts. 2. When the King commands any thing that seems to others, or to us, harsh, inconvenient, or doubtful; we must honour the King, by interpreting his Laws in the best sense: If love must not think evil, but hope all things, of all sorts of men, then much more of Kings: It were greatly to be longed for, that this note might enter into the breasts of some men,1 they, would then be afraid to charge so much evil of the Kings ordinances, not only when they might find a fairer sense, but oftentimes expressly against the intent, and meaning of the ordinance.