A17384:3233
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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Secondly, if such as are next above us in authority, command us any thing contrary to the laws of the supreme Magistrate, to whom they and we are bound; we are not tied to obey.
Secondly, if such as are next aboue vs in authority, command vs any thing contrary to the lawes of the supreme Magistrate, to whom they and wee are bound; we are not tied to obey.
Thirdly, mens laws can only bind us to outward working or suffering; they cannot make laws, or inflict punishment upon the hearts or minds of men: whereas God's Laws enjoin obedience upon the inward man, as well as the outward; and eternal punishment, as well as temporary.
Thirdly, mens lawes can onely binde vs to outward working or suffering; they cannot make laws, or inflict punishment vpon the hearts or mindes of men: whereas God's Lawes enioyne obedience vpon the inward man, as well as the outward; and eternall punishment, as well as temporary.
Fourthly, the best laws of men, where they bind most, bind not by any immediate power of their own, but by fear of God's Word, that enjoins us to obey their lawful authority.
Fourthly, the best laws of men, where they bind most, binde not by any immediate power of their owne, but by fear of God's Word, that enioyns vs to obey their lawfull authority.