A17412:974
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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5 Private Christians in receiving opinions, should have great respect unto such Teachers as have been their fathers in Christ; God hath bound them to a special reverence towards them: which they should show by reverencing their judgements more than any other men, in meet comparison, 1. Cor. 4.15.16. & 11.1.2.4.5. Phil. 3.15.17.
5 Private Christians in receiving opinions, should have great respect unto such Teachers as have beene their fathers in Christ; God hath bound them to a speciall reverence towards them: which they should shew by reverencing their judgements more than any other men, in meet comparison, 1. Cor. 4.15.16. & 11.1.2.4.5. Phil. 3.15.17.
6 To preserve a further unity, it should be the care of such as have gifts of knowledge and utterance, to help forwards such as are weak in judgement, & to comfort the feeble minded, left they being neglected, become a prey to deceivers of minds, 1. Thes. 5.14. and to warn such as are not of the ⟨p. 184⟩same mind, Philip. chap. 4.
6 To preserve a further unity, it should be the care of such as have gifts of knowledge and utterance, to helpe forwards such as are weake in judgement, & to comfort the feeble minded, left they being neglected, become a prey to deceivers of mindes,