A17384:2990
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.
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.
1A family is the society of diuers men dwelling together in one house for preseruation and happines: Where three things are to bee explicated: First, what are the persons, that take vpon 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.
- 1What ae family is.
First, the persons, that constitute a family or families society, are to be considered, either as the family is perfect, or unperfect.
First, the persons, that constitute a family or families society, are to bee considered, either as the family is perfect, or vnperfect.
1. A perfect family consists of a triple society, first, the one between man and wife▪ secondly▪ the other between parents and children: thirdly, ⟨p. 713⟩and the third between Master and servants. 2. The unperfect is, when any of these societies are wanting, as when there are not either children, or servants, or wives, or husbands in it: The Apostles directions here do form only an unperfect family: For he gives not directions about parents and children.