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Sermons upon the ten first verses of the third chapter of the first Epistle…
Sermons upon the ten first verses of the third chapter of the first Epistle of S. Peter Being the last that were preached by the late faithful and painful minister of Gods word, Nicolas Byfield. Wherein method, sense, doctrine, and use, is, with great variety of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of divinity largely discussed. Published since the authors death by William Gouge.Sermons upon the ten first verses of the third chapter of the first Epistle of S. Peter Being the last that were preached by the late faithfull and painfull minister of Gods word, Nicolas Byfield. Wherein method, sense, doctrine, and vse, is, with great varietie of matter, profitably handled; and sundry heads of divinitie largely discussed. Published since the authors death by William Gouge.
London: printed by H. Lownes for George Latham, 1626
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 first; Men become brethren one to another many ways:1 as first by propagation, when they are borne of the same blood, and so the children of the same parents are brethren: and in a remoter sense, kinsmen of the same blood are brethren, Luke 8.19.
For the first; Men become brethren one to another manie wayes:1 as first by propagation, when they are borne of the same bloud, and so the children of the same parents are brethren: and in a remoter sense, kinsmen of the same bloud are brethren, Luke 8.19.
- 1Who are brethren.
Secondly, by Nation: when men are countrymen, they are called brethren, especially when they descend originally from the fountain of the same ancient families; and so the people of the twelve Tribes were brethren, Exod. 2.11.
Secondly, by Nation: when men are countreymen, they are called brethren, especially when they descend originally from the fountaine of the same ancient families; and so the people of the twelve Tribes were brethren, Exod. 2.11.