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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.
1 The term of connection, Likewise.
1 The terme of connexion, Likewise.
2 The parties charged, Ye wives.
3 The duty required (viz.) Be in subjection.
3 The duty required (viz.) Be in subiection.
4 The parties to whom the duty must be performed (viz.) To your own husbands.
4 The parties to whom the duty must bee performed (viz.) To your owne husbands.
Likewise.] This term leads us to the duty of servants, entreated of before, or else to the work of conversion to Christ, mentioned in the last verses of the former chapter. If it lead us (as is most likely) to the duty of servants, in the whole latter part of the former chapter; then the Apostle would thereby tell wives, That God is no respectre of persons. He that requires servants should obey them, requires also that wives should obey their husbands, and will indifferently punish the faults of both: yea, if they would have their servants obey them, they must make conscience to obey their husbands; else it is just with God they should be vexed by their servants, that care not to be a vexation to their husbands. And if it be referred to the work of returning to Christ, then it teacheth, That women must so think of the conversion of their souls, as that they make not religion a pretence for negligence or disobedience: they must so seek the Lord Jesus, as withal they remember to be subject to their husbands, and to look to their callings in the family.