A17384:2981
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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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.
1. We must not curse the King, no not in secret; no not in our thoughts: We must not entertayne impatient and vile thoughts of the King, but, from our hearts, esteeme him for his greatnesse, authority, and gifts. 2. When the King commands any thing that seemes to others, or to vs, harsh, inconuenient, or doubtfull; we must honour the King, by interpreting his Laws in the best sence: If loue must not thinke euill, but hope all things, of all sorts of men, then much more of Kings: It were greatly to bee longed for, that this note might enter into the brests of some men,1 they, would then bee afraid to charge so much euill of the Kings ordinances, not onely when they might finde a fairer sence, but oftentimes expresly against the intent, and meaning of the ordinance.
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