A17384:3097
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
For the sense: we must enquire who are good Masters, and who gentle.
Good Masters are discerned by divers signs.
Good Masters are discerned by diuers signes.
1First, they seek not only painful and skilful, but religious servants, Psal. 101.1, 6, 7.
1First, they seeke not only painefull and skilfull, but religious seruants, Psal. 101.1, 6, 7.
- 1Signs of good masters.Signes of good masters.
Secondly, they not only licence, but teach their servants to keep God's Sabbaths, and to worship him, Commandment 4.