A17384:3071
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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Use 2. Such parents as put their children forth to service, must take heed, that they spoil them not by giving care to the complaints of their masters, or by allowing them any way in stubborn and disobedient courses.
Vse 2. Such parents as put their children foorth to seruice, must take heed, that they spoil them not by giuing care to the complaints of their masters, or by allowing them any way in stubborn and disobedient courses.
Thirdly, if masters would have their servants to please them by their subjection, they then must learn how to rule and govern them, not only by teaching and charging them what to do, but also by over-seeing them, whereby many faults may be prevented; and accordingly by seasonable reproving them, and correcting of them betimes for the more wilful offences; so studying to carry themselves gently towards them, or that they lose not their authority by too much love of their own ease and quietness: else it is just, that their servants should prove a continual vexation to them, Pro. 30.22. and 29.19.
Thirdly, if masters would haue their seruants to please them by their subiection, they then must learn how to rule and gouern them, not onely by teaching and charging them what to doo, but also by ouer-seeing them, whereby many faults may bee preuented; and accordingly by seasonable reprouing them, and correcting of them betimes for the more wilfull offenses; so studying to carry themselues gently towards them, or that they lose not their authority by too much loue of their own ease and quietnes: else it is iust, that their seruants should prooue a continuall vexation to them, Pro. 30.22. and 29.19.