A17384:3095
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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Fifthly, by doing their work with all faithfulness and diligence, in absence as well as presence; that when the Master comes, he may find them so doing, Math. 24. Thus of the manner of the duty; •he persons to whom they must thus submit themselves follow: And so they must be subject with all fear, not only to the good, but also to the froward.
Fiftly, by doing their work with all faithfulnesse and diligence, in absence as well as presence; that when the Master comes, he may finde them so doing, Math. 24. Thus of the manner of the duty; •he persons to whom they must thus submit themselues follow: And so they must be subiect with all fear, not onely to the good, but also to the froward.
To the good and gentle.]
For the sense: we must enquire who are good Masters, and who gentle.
Good Masters are discerned by divers signs.