A17384:3035
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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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 were wont to account it the best part of their possessions, that they had men seruants, or maid seruants.
Thirdly, it should teach servants especially two things; the one is humility: they should run a race fitted to their condition, they should conquer pride and aspiring, remembering that God hath abased them. The other is, they should keep themselves in their places and callings, and not shake off the yoke by running away, &c. seeing God hath taken them bound to serve: But the former is most proper to this place; seeing they are but servants, they should be content with such diet, apparel, labour, & usage, as is convenient to their condition.