A30242:1035
The Scripture directory for church-officers and people, or, A practical commentary upon the whole…
The Scripture directory for church-officers and people, or, A practical commentary upon the whole third chapter of the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians to which is annexed The godly and the natural mans choice, upon Psal. 4, vers. 6, 7, 8 / by Anthony Burgess ...The Scripture directory for church-officers and people, or, A practical commentary upon the whole third chapter of the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians to which is annexed The godly and the natural mans choice, upon Psal. 4, vers. 6, 7, 8 / by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for T.U., 1659
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.
Secondly, The word of God is fire to try mens works, because it containeth all matter necessary to salvation. So that when we believe hoc credimus, quod nihil ultra credere debemus: the Scriptures are said to be able to make us wise to salvation, 2 Tim. 3 15. If nature doth not fail in natural necessities, much less will the Scripture in supernatural. These things are written, that believing you might have eternal life, Joh. 20.31. As God at first put all the light into the Sun, so he hath all necessary things into the Scripture. The Word of God then will manifest and reveal, both objectively, in discovering that matter which is true, and subjectively, in preparing the eye to see, which is more then the Sun can do: Though that enlighten the medium, yet it cannot give a seeing eye to the blind.
Secondly, The word of God is fire to try mens works, because it containeth all matter necessary to salvation. So that when we believe hoc credimus, quod nihil ultra credere debemus: the Scriptures are said to be able to make us wise to salvation, 2 Tim. 3 15. If nature doth not fail in natural necessities, much lesse will the Scripture in supernatural. These things are written, that believing you might have eternal life, Joh. 20.31. As God at first put all the light into the Sunne, so he hath all necessary things into the Scripture. The Word of God then will manifest and reveal, both objectively, in discovering that matter which is true, and subjectively, in preparing the eye to see, which is more then the Sun can do: Though that enlighten the medium, yet it cannot give a seeing eye to the blind.
Thirdly, The word of God will be a fire to try, because it doth direct to all those means whereby we may come out of all errors. As