A17384:3028
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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Fifthly, wicked children, for their disobedience to their parents, are many times brought not only to be servants, but as was noted before of Cam, to be servant of servants, Prou. 17.2.
Fiftly, wicked children, for their disobedience to their parents, are many times brought not onely to bee seruants, but as was noted before of Cam, to bee seruant of seruants, Prou. 17.2.
Sixthly, many men are brought to a morsel of bread by their own disorder and wickedness of life; sometimes open sins, sometimes secret sins bringing this curse of God upon them: For men became servants, only to gain by their service the knowledge, or state of some science, art, or trade as many apprentices do.
Sixtly, many men are brought to a morsell of bread by their owne disorder and wickednes of life; sometimes open sins, sometimes secret sinnes bringing this curse of God vpon them: For men became seruants, onely to gayne by their seruice the knowledge, or state of som science, art, or trade as many apprentices doe.
Seventhly, sometimes God by his hand doth ⟨p. 721⟩abase some men only, as a trial, if they fall into poverty, and so to the necessity of working for others by no sinful courses of their own: but by the inevitable hand of God, as by piracy, shipwreck, fire, thieves, or the like: and these are so humbled, either to warn others, and show the power of God, or to bring them to repentance, or else for trial of God's grace in them.