A17384:3079
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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For the second. Magistrates, Tutors, Ministers, Masters, and all Superiors, are called Fathers, first, because the father was the first degree of superiority, and the fountain and seminary of all society. Secondly, God of purpose preserves this title in all superiority, thereby to sweeten subjection to Inferiors, and to make them think the several dangers, burdens, labours, and subjections in each condition, to be not only tolerable, but meet to be born, because they endure them under parents as it were: and so such superiority, for that reason, should not be resisted or envied. Thirdly, that thereby Superiors may be put in mind of their duty, to avoid insolency, cruelty, oppression, and the too much respect of themselves; God charging them by this title, to remember, that their Inferiors are to them, by God's Ordinance, as their children.
For the second. Magistrates, Tutors, Ministers, Masters, and all Superiours, are called Fathers, first, because the father was the first degree of superiority, and the fountain and seminary of all society. Secondly, God of purpose preserues this title in all superiority, thereby to sweeten subiection to Inferiors, and to make them think the seuerall dangers, burdens, labours, and subiections in each condition, to be not onely tolerable, but meet to be born, because they endure them vnder parents as it were: and so such superiority, for that reason, should not bee resisted or enuied. Thirdly, that thereby Superiours may bee put in minde of their dutie, to auoid insolency, cruelty, oppression, and the too much respect of themselues; God charging them by this title, to remember, that their Inferiors are to them, by God's Ordinance, as their children.
Thus of the proposition of the duties of servants.
Thus of the proposition of the duties of seruants.