A17384:3137
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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Doct. 7. That it is conscience or mere necessity, that makes any man suffer: men endure no wrong by nature, but either by necessity, because they cannot right it; or else for conscience sake, because God hath so required it. Which should warn Superiors to take heed, that they do no wrong: for, the persons wronged, if they want conscience, may so remember the wrong, as sometimes to find a desperate way of revenge, to the mischief of the wrong-doer, though the party wronged do evil in so doing, as followeth in the next doctrine.
Doct. 7. That it is conscience or meer necessity, that makes any man suffer: men endure no wrong by nature, but either by necessity, because they cannot right it; or else for conscience sake, because God hath so required it. Which should warn Superiours to take heed, that they doo no wrong: for, the persons wronged, if they want conscience, may so remember the wrong, as somtimes to finde a desperate way of reuenge, to the mischief of the wrong-doer, though the party wronged doo euill in so dooing, as followeth in the next doctrine.
Doct. 8. Inferiors, being wronged even in blows by the Superior, ought not to resist, but endure it: servants may not resist the correction of their masters, nor strike again; that is horrible, and egregiously sinful. Which shows the grievous pride and naughtiness of divers servants, that boast or threaten, that they will take no blows: their resolution shows, they are void of knowledge in the fear or conscience of God's will. And so it is alike sinful in children, wives, or subjects, to resist, or return blows for blows, or evil for evil: ⟨p. 749⟩neither doth this embolden masters or other superiors to do wrong, because (as was heard before) they shall receive of GOD according to all the wrongs they have done.
Doct. 8. Inferiours, beeing wronged euen in blowes by the Superiour, ought not to resist, but endure it: seruants may not resist the correction of their masters, nor strike again; that is horrible, and egregiously sinnefull. Which shewes the grieuous pride and naughtiness of diuers seruants, that boast or threaten, that they will take no blowes: their resolution shewes, they are void of knowledge in the feare or conscience of God's will. And so it is alike sinnefull in children, wiues, or subiects, to resist, or return blowes for blowes, or euill for euill: