A17384:3443
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. 1. First, that in case of wrongs from other men, it is not always needful or convenient to complain to the Magistrate for redress. Christ here commits his cause to God, but complaineth not: nay, though he were wronged almost continually, ⟨p. 814⟩and with grievous wrongs, yet we read not, that ever he complained against them that did him wrong.
Doct. 1. First, that in case of wrongs from other men, it is not alwaies needfull or conuenient to complain to the Magistrate for redresse. Christ heer commits his cause to God, but complaineth not: nay, though hee were wronged almost continually, ⟨p. 814⟩and with grieuous wrongs, yet we read not, that euer he complained against them that did him wrong.
Here two things are to be enquired after.
Heer two things are to be enquired after.
First, in what cases it is not fit to complain to men.
First, in what cases it is not fit to complaine to men.