A17384:2994
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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Thirdly, the end of a fraternity, is preservation and happiness: and so to speak distinctly, there are three things requisite to make this society happy, and to preserve it so:1 namely, first, commodity, secondly, delight, and thirdly, Religion. Unto commodity is requisite possession of goods, and the mutual lawful labour of the persons in the family: unto delight is requisite, quietness and love: unto Religion, is required the constant and right serving of God. If commodity be wanting, the family cannot be at all: If delight be wanting, it cannot be well: and if religion be wanting, it cannot be for ever.
Thirdly, the end of a fraternity, is preseruation and happines: and so to speak distinctly, there are three things requisite to make this society happy, and to preserue it so:1 namely, first, commodity, secondly, delight, and thirdly, Religion. Vnto commodity is requisite possession of goods, and the mutuall lawfull labour of the persons in the family: vnto delight is requisite, quietnes and loue: vnto Religion, is required the constant and right seruing of God. If commodity bee wanting, the family cannot bee at all: If delight bee wanting, it cannot bee well: and if religion bee wanting, it cannot bee for euer.
- 1Three things required to make a society happy.
Thus of a family in general: and two things may be in general noted from the Apostles charge about the family. First, that God himself doth bind all sorts of persons, as strictly to the good behaviour in their own houses, or towards one another, ⟨p. 714⟩as he doth toward those in his house. Secondly, that the conscience is bound immediately from God, to nourish all good duties. And this is so proved by the fifth Commandment, and