A17384:3284
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. 3. To suffer for welldoing, may befall any sort of men, as here it is supposed to be the case of servants.
Doct. 3. To suffer for weldoing, may befall any sort of men, as heere it is supposed to bee the case of seruants.
Doct. 4. It is by accident, and not from the nature of welldoing, or any necessity that is absolute, that men suffer for welldoing: It doth not necessarily follow, that men must suffer always, or all sorts of men, for goodness: It may befall them; it doth not follow, that it must befall them: and therefore the Apostle faith, If you suffer.
Doct. 4. It is by accident, and not from the nature of weldoing, or any necessity that is absolute, that men suffer for weldoing: It doth not necessarily follow, that men must suffer alwaies, or all sorts of men, for goodnes: It may befall them; it doth not follow, that it must befall them: and therfore the Apostle faith, If you suffer.
Doct. 5. To suffer for welldoing patiently, is wonderful glorious, and acceptable before God.
Doct. 5. To suffer for weldoing patiently, is wonderfull glorious, and acceptable before God.