A17384:2997
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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1First, from his own right. For, though there be many Administrators, as, of a Church, a Common-wealth, a Family, &c. yet there is but one Lord: God is the Head of this society, as well as of any other, 1. Cor. 12.
1First, from his owne right. For, though there be many Administrators, as, of a Church, a Common-wealth, a Family, &c. yet there is but one Lord: God is the Head of this society, as well as of any other, 1. Cor. 12.
- 1We are bound of God to the care of domesticall duties, for divers reasons.We are bound of God to the care of domesticall duties, for diuers reasons.
Secondly, because this is the first society God brought into the world; and therefore he would have it honoured and carefully preserved to the end of the world. The first society in Paradise, was this: and Religion was professed for many hundred years by this society only, even till the people came out of Egypt.
Secondly, because this is the first society God brought into the world; and therefore hee would haue it honoured and carefully preserued to the end of the world. The first society in Paradise, was this: and Religion was professed for many hundred yeers by this society onely, euen till the people came out of Aegypt.