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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
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6 Because marriage is honourable in Gods account, and ought to be so amongst men: therefore it being a great dignity to which they are called, it is as shameful a fault to live disorderly in that estate, as in the estate of a Magistrate, or Minister, or the like, Heb. 13.
6 Because marriage is honourable in Gods account, and ought to be so amongst men: therefore it being a great dignity to which they are called, it is as shamefull a fault to live disorderly in that estate, as in the estate of a Magistrate, or Minister, or the like, Heb. 13.
7 Note, that the fifth Commandment that concerns family-duties and the order should be in our dwellings, stands between the Commandments of the first Table, and the rest ⟨p. 2⟩[…] ⟨p. 3⟩[…] ⟨p. 4⟩of the Commandments of the second Table: to signify, that from the careful performance of domesticall duties, men are fitter to serve God in the first Table, or converse with men in the world, in the second Table: yea, all we get from God in the first Table, or from men in the second, we bring it home to our houses, or to the place of well employing it. Note the last words of vers. 7. of this chapter.
7 Note, that the fift Commandement that concernes family-duties and the order should bee in our dwellings, stands between the Commandements of the first Table, and the rest ⟨p. 2⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 3⟩