A17384:3013
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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Two things are to be inquired into about servants.
Two things are to bee inquired into about seruants.
First, the original of their estate: and secondly, the bond that ties them to this subjection.
First, the originall of their estate: and secondly, the bond that ties them to this subiection.
There are servants of God, servants of sin, servants of men: It is the servants of men, that are here meant: servants of men are not all of one sort neither.
There are seruants of God, seruants of sinne, seruants of men: It is the seruants of men, that are heere meant: seruants of men are not all of one sort neither.
1For first, such as apply themselves to satisfy the unreasonable humours of men, are said to be servants of men, and condemned, 1. Cor. 7.23.