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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.
AN EXPOSITION of part of the third Chapter of the first Epistle general of PETER.
AN EXPOSITION of part of the third Chapter of the first Epistle generall of PETER.
1. Pet. cap. 3. vers. 1.2.3.4. Likewise let the Wives be subject to their Husbands, that even they which obey not the word, may without the word be won by the conversation of the Wives, 2. While they behold your pure conversation, which is with fear. 3. Whose apparelling let it not be outward, as with braided hair, and gold put about, or in putting on of apparel. 4. But let the hid man of the heart be uncorrupt, with a meek and quiet spirit, which is before God a thing much set by.
1. Pet. cap. 3. vers. 1.2.3.4. Likewise let the Wives be subject to their Husbands, that even they which obey not the word, may without the word be wonne by the conversation of the Wives, 2. While they behold your pure conversation, which is with feare. 3. Whose apparelling let it not be outward, as with broyded hayre, and gold put about, or in putting on of apparell. 4. But let the hid man of the heart be uncorrupt, with a meeke and quiet spirit, which is before God a thing much set by.
From the thirteenth verse of the former chapter, to the eight verse of this chapter, the Apostle exhorts to such duties as concern particular Christians: and so either in the Common-wealth, where he exhorts subjects, from verse 13. to 18. or in the Family; where he exhorts either servants, verse 18. to the end of the former chapter, or wives and husbands in the ⟨p. 2⟩