A17384:3062
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 to their commandments: and so they must obey them, and yield themselves to them to be ruled and directed by them in all things, Eph. 6.5. Col. 3.22.
First,1 to their commandements: and so they must obey them, and yeeld themselues to them to be ruled and directed by them in all things, Eph. 6.5. Col. 3.22.
- 1Servants must be subject 3 ways.Seruants must be subiect 3 waies.
Secondly, to their rebukes and corrections: for if children need rebukes and corrections, then do servants also, Pro. 13.1. and 15.5. Servants will not always be corrected by words, and therefore need blows, Pro. 29.19. Gen. 16.6. yea, they must patiently suffer correction, though it be inflicted unjustly, as appears in the verses following this Text.
Secondly, to their rebukes and corrections: for if children need rebukes and corrections, then doo seruants also,