A17384:3063
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, 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, Pro. 13.1. and 15.5. Seruants will not alwaies be corrected by words, and therefore need blowes, Pro. 29.19. Gen. 16.6. yea, they must patiently suffer correction, though it be inflicted vniustly, as appears in the verses following this Text.
Thirdly, to their restraints. Servants must be subject to the appointment of their masters, even in the things wherein they restrain them; as for instance, in their diet. It is a sinful humour in them, Not to be content with such diet as their masters appoint them, though it be worse than the diet of their masters, or the diet of the children of the family. So likewise in their company: they must avoid all company that may be any way offensive to their masters; and so likewise in their apparel, in such cases where servants are to be apparelled by their masters; as also in respect of their going out of the house in the day-time, when they have not leave: but much more abominable it is, To be out of their masters houses in the night, without their leave.