A17384:3019
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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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, 2. Cor. 4.5. 1. Cor. 9.19.
But none of these are here meant: Those servants are domesticall servants, such as are under the yoke of particular Masters in a family.
But none of these are heere meant: Those seruants are domesticall seruants, such as are vnder the yoke of particular Masters in a family.
Those servants in the Apostles time were of ⟨p. 719⟩two sorts: some were bond servants, such as were bought and sold in the markets, over whom the Masters had absolute and perpetual power: some were hired servants, that did service by covenant and contract, as servants do now for the most part with us.
Those seruants in the Apostles time were of ⟨p. 719⟩