A17384:3016
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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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.
1For first, such as apply themselues to satisfy the vnreasonable humors of men, are said to bee seruants of men, and condemned, 1. Cor. 7.23.
- 1Servants of men are of divers sorts.Seruants of men are of diuers sorts.
Secondly, such as make themselves beholding to other men through their pride, are forst many times to become their servants. Thus the borrower is a servant to the lender, Prou. 22.7.
Secondly, such as make themselues beholding to other men through their pride, are forst many times to become their seruants. Thus the borrower is a seruant to the lender, Prou. 22.7.