A17384:2984
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 18. Servants, be subject to your Masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
Verse 18. Seruants, bee subiect to your Masters with all feare, not onely to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
Hitherto of the duties of subjects, and so of the exhortation as it is political, and concerns the Common-wealth.
HItherto of the duties of subiects, and so of the exhortation as it is politicall, and concernes the Common-wealth.
Now the Apostle proceeds to give directions economical, that concern the family, or household government: Before I consider of the particular exhortations, something would be said in general concerning a family.
Now the Apostle proceeds to giue directions oeconomicall, that concerne the family, or houshould gouernment: Before I consider of the particular exhortations, something would be said in generall concerning a family.
1A family is the society of divers men dwelling together in one house for preservation and happiness: Where three things are to be explicated: First, what are the persons, that take upon them to constitute this society: Secondly, what is the difference between this society, and their humane societies: Thirdly, what is the end of this society.