A17384:3033
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.
Uses. The use of all this may be divers: For,
Vses. The vse of all this may bee diuers: For,
First, it should teach all sorts of men, the more to hate and flee from sin, which hath brought these miseries upon such multitudes of men.
First, it should teach all sorts of men, the more to hate and flee from sinne, which hath brought these miseries vpon such multitudes of men.
Secondly, it should teach Masters to use their servants respectively: For tho they be servants, yet they are men made after the Image of God, and ⟨p. 722⟩they are the best part of their possession. For other things they possess, are without life, and servants are the living instruments of their commodities. Thus wise and godly men in Scripture,1 were wont to account it the best part of their possessions, that they had men servants, or maid servants.
Secondly, it should teach Masters to vse their seruants respectiuely: For tho they be seruants, yet they are men made after the Image of God, and ⟨p. 722⟩they are the best part of their possession. For other things they possesse, are without life, and seruants are the liuing instruments of their commodities. Thus wise and godly men in Scripture,1