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A17412	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.	Byfield, Nicholas, 1579-1622.; Gouge, William, 1578-1653.	1626 (1626)	STC 4235; ESTC S107153	186,240	252

rather to women than to men especially in the new Testament as 1. Tim. 2.9 1. Pet. 3.3 The use may be first to give vs occasion to magnifie the power and mercy of God His mercy that dispiseth not his weake creatures but bestoweth the grace of life upon them His power in that he keepes them in life and preserveth his owne worke of grace vnto the possession of eternall life Secondly it should stirre up women so much the more to use all the Ordinances of God and all helps to make themselves strong in the power of the gifts of grace especially they should get a strong faith in God that they may trust in the power of God that giveth strength to the weake Esay 40. 29 31. 1. Pet. 3.5 It will bee their greater glory if they can overcome their naturall weaknesses especially if they can excell men in the things of the kingdome of God as many times it comes to passe Thirdly all Christians should have those women in great estimation that have overcomne their frailties and doe excell in knowledge and piety and mercy and trust in God Fourthly all women should bee therefore the more humble and apt to feare and judge themselves and more willing to be taught or admonished and more frequent in praier to God to helpe them and keepe them and in particular they should be the more willing to bee ruled by their husbands as knowing it is a mercy of God considering their weaknesse to give them husbands to support them and provide for them and finally they should bee the more faithfull and diligent to doe all the good they can in domesticall affaires seeing by nature they are not fit to manage the greater and more publike services of God The third doctrine concernes Husbands and so they are taught from hence to give the more honour to their wives because of their naturall weaknesse For as it is in the naturall body those members of the body which we thinke lesse honourable upon them wee bestow the more abundant honour 1. Cor. 12.23 24. so it should bee in the Economical body for the wife is unto the husband bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh and this honour he should give her and shew it both by taking the more care to provide for her and by cherishing incouraging her the more by hiding covering her frailties as much as he may by not exacting more from her than she is able to performe by helping her all he can by instruction or otherwise Only we must note that he is not bound to honor her the more for sinful infirmities but for naturall defects How he must carrie himselfe towards her in respect of sinfull infirmities or personall faults hath beene shewed before in the manner of his carriage towards her as a man of knowledge And thus of the first reason As being heyres together of the grace of life In these words is contained the second reason taken from the generall dignity of Christians which also extends to Christian wives And concerning the dignitie of Christians five things may be noted out of these words 1 The title of their dignitie They are Heyres 2 What they inherite Life 3 What the cause of this dignitie is viz. Grace 4 In what maner they possesse it viz. Together 5 The persons capable of it Women as well as men From the coherence we may note That if women will have their husbands to honour them they must be religious women and true Christians that have grace as well as worldly portion God requires religion and grace in all wives And the rather should they bee carefull to get grace and become truely religious because it was long of their sexe that sinne came into the world and as by one womans bearing of a childe salvation was brought againe into the world so should they everie one in particular strive to recover their honour by expressing the sound power of a religious life in all faith and charitie and holinesse and sobrietie 1. Tim. 2.14 15. And besides what shall it profite wives to get them jointures on earth and husbands to provide for them while they live here if their soules and bodies perish when they dye and lose the inheritance in heaven and perish they will if they get not true grace And further if they be gracious women if their husbands be so profane as not to make much of them yet they shall be greatly set by of God as was shewed vers 4. But on the other side if they be ignorant and irreligious women it is just with God to deprive them of the comfort of this life and to let their husbands neglect them or abuse them For though their husbands sinne in so doing yet God is just in permitting such a thing for their punishment Secondly another doctrine may be noted from the coherence and that is That in heaven there shall bee no difference betweene husbands and wives but they shall bee all one in Christ alike heires of eternall life Which is to be noted the more to perswade them to submit themselves and endure to be under the rule and authority of their husbands in this world for that estate of inferiority shall not last ever for in heaven God shall be all in all they shall be ruled by God and the Lambe Thus from the Coherence The first thing to be observed about the dignity of Christians in generall is That they are heires Heires The doctrine is That all true Christians are heires Now for the opening of this doctrine two things must be considered 1. How they come to be heires 2. What their glory is in being so For the first Christians are not borne Heires I meane not heires to God as is intended in this place but have it by the grace of adoption God hath but one Heire by generation and that is Christ all his other heires are by adoption such as hee chooseth of his meere Grace and makes them his heires Now the mystery of our adoption must be considered of in this manner A Christian by the Gospell is made a Believer Now faith after an unspeakable manner engrafts him into the body of Iesus Christ Now being engrafted into Iesus Christ who is Gods Sonne hee thereby comes to the power to be the sonne of God and to be an heire with Christ. Christ is Gods Heire and so is all that is grafted upon Christ Ioh. 1.12 Now there is a double Adoption the one imperfect in this life the other perfect which wee shall have after the Resurrection of the dead By the one we have the promise of inheritance and by the other wee shall have full possession Of the first is mention made Rom. 8.15 of the other Rom. 8.23 the first adoption is meant here For the second Adoption is called a glory by an excellence because there is no glory like to it even the adoption to bee heires as it is in this life is the greatest

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 at the brazen Serpent in Paules Church-yard 1626. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE SIR HORATIO VEERE Knight Lord Veere of Tilbery and Generall of the English Forces in the service of the high and mightie Lords the States Generall of the united Provinces in the Neatherlands And to his pious and vertuous Consort the Lady Mary Veere such encrease of Grace as may bring them to fulnesse of Glory RIGHT HONOVRABLE THe Almighties gracious acceptation of such Oblations as are brought to him encourageth sons of men to offer their Sacrifices on the Altar of his Grace Like ground of encouragement have to lay this Oblation on the Altar of your Honours patronage Of your gracious acceptation thereof these reasons assure me 1. This Impe now presented to your Honours is a twinne to that Posthumus which was heretofore presented to and accepted of your Honours 2. This together with his other brothers was by their owne Father while he lived devoted to your Honours To divert them otherwaies would bee plaine plagium 3. Your Honours did many waies manifest a very good respect to the forementioned Father of this Orphane 4. This Impe it selfe is a goodly Impe and giveth assured hope of doing much good to Gods Church 5. Your Honours high esteeme of all good and faithfull Ministers of their function of their labours and works is well knowne 6. Your Honours mutuall entire affection and sincere and sweet conversation and carriage one towards another is a lively representation and evident demonstration of the truth of that doctrine concerning Husband Wife which is principally handled in this Treatise 7. Your Honour my good Lord hath all your daies been a valiant and faithfull Champion for the Church maintaining her safety and liberty with the perill of your owne life wherein though Communis Mars bellique casus sit incertus yet successe hath oft crowned your valour instance among other famous victories the incomparable conquest by your Honours more than ordinary courage obtained in New-port-field Can now doubt be made of your Honours favour in countenancing this child of the Church 8. Your Honour my good Lady was a diligent frequenter of his Ministery who preached these Sermons and hearing the distinct points when they were first out of the Pulpet uttered so approved them as oft you desired the publishing of them For they were Cygnean songs the last and sweetest of all 9. As the sacred Scriptures so good Commentaries thereon such as this is area solace to your Honours in reading whereof you have manifested much delight Finally many and great are the favours and kindnesses which from time to time your Honours have done to the Publisher of this worke which as in duty he is bound he willingly taketh this occasion in all humility and with all thankfulnesse to acknowledge The premises considered the said Publisher confidently resteth upon your Honours patronage and boweth his knees before the Throne of Grace for a mercifull Remembrance and bountifull Remuneration of that Goodnesse which your Honours have done to the Church of God to the poore Members and faithfull Ministers thereof and in speciall to the Author of this Commentary yea and to the Publisher thereof Your Honours much obliged William Gouge Black-Friers London 25. Ian. 1625. 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 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 eyther servants verse 18. to the end of the former chapter or wives and husbands in the first seven verses of this chapter So that in these first seven verses the Apostle intreats of the duties betweene man and wife and first sets downe the wives duety from vers 1. to 7. and then the mens duetie in the seventh verse In laying downe the wives duty hee proceeds in this order First he briefly propounds the substance of her duty in the first words Wives be sub●ect Secondly hee expounds upon it by shewing divers particular things she must expresse in her conversation as Amiablenesse vers 1. Chastitie and Feare vers 2. Mecknesse vers 3.4 Then thirdly he confirmes all by two reasons both taken from example first of godly women in generall vers 5. secondly of Sarah in particular vers 6. Before I set upon the particular parts of the Text divers things would be noted in generall First in that this Apostle and other Apostles thinke it fit with such effectuall termes when they write to the Churches to give such speciall charge to Husbands and Wives it shewes That God doth greatly desire that they should in a speciall manner be carefull to leade an orderly and comfortable life together Whatsoever in domesticall matters is sometimes omitted in the Text yet seldome in any place that treats of family-duties is the duty of Husbands and Wives left out Here it is vehemently urged and so in the Epistle to the Ephesians which should worke in all that feare God a care and conscience of these duties and of carrying themselves in the best manner they can one towards another Now the substance of an orderly life betweene man and wife is to love one another with all constancy tendernesse and fidelity to shew one heart in all things helping one another to doe the duties of the family especially in the service of God and in carrying the crosses may light upon them in their callings encouraging and comforting one another honoring one another before others and bearing one with another in respect of infirmities and each of them striving to doe exactly the duty that belongs to each Now that men and women may bee carefull hereof many motives may be alledged and ought to be thought upon 1 Because this society betweene one man and one woman in marriage was instituted of God himselfe and was the first society that he brought into