A17384:3040
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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First,1 because extremities of bondage are removed from servants with us for the most part, so as their service is but for a time, and voluntary too, to hire themselves to whom they will, and Masters have not power of their lives.
First,1 because extremities of bondage are remoued from seruants with vs for the most part, so as their seruice is but for a time, and voluntary too, to hire themselues to whom they will, and Masters haue not power of their liues.
- 1How a godly servant may comfor. himself in that estate.How a godly seruant may comfor. himselfe in that estate.
Secondly, because their calling is acknowledged for a lawful calling by God.
Secondly, because their calling is acknowledged for a lawfull calling by God.
Thirdly, because God hath bound Masters by his Word to use them well, & the Laws of Princes provide punishments for unreasonable Masters.
Thirdly, because God hath bound Masters by his Word to vse them wel, & the Lawes of Princes prouide punishments for vnreasonable Masters.