A17384:3017
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
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.
Thirdly, such as employ their estates or bodies for the honour, or preservation of their superiors, are said to be servants: thus subjects serve Princes, 1. Sam. 8.17.
Thirdly, such as imploy their estates or bodies for the honour, or preseruation of their superiors, are said to be seruants: thus subiects serue Princes, 1. Sam. 8.17.
Fourthly, such as employ their labours, and spend themselves for the common good, are said to be servants: thus Ministers are the peoples servants, 2. Cor. 4.5. 1. Cor. 9.19.
Fourthly, such as imploy their labours, and spend themselues for the common good, are said to bee seruants: thus Ministers are the peoples seruants,