A30242:1041
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.
1Answer 1. The defect is not in the Scripture, but in men themselves. The Owl and Bat is made blinder by the Sun-beams, not through any defect in the Sun. A diseased stomach, groweth worse by the good meat it eateth. The Papists call the Scripture, The Heretics Book; and Luther did so also, but upon different grounds: For the Papists, they say the blame on the Scripture, making it insufficient, imperfect, a nose of wax: but Luther, on mens corruptions, that profanely and presumptuously put that sense on it, which it doth not own. But
1Answer 1. The defect is not in the Scripture, but in men themselves. The Owle and Bat is made blinder by the Sunne-beames, not through any defect in the Sunne. A diseased stomack, groweth worse by the good meat it eateth. The Papists call the Scripture, The Heretiques Book; and Luther did so also, but upon different grounds: For the Papists, they say the blame on the Scripture, making it insufficient, imperfect, a nose of wax: but Luther, on mens corruptions, that prophanely and presumptuously put that sense on it, which it doth not own. But
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Secondly, Men swallow down first the sweet poison of errors from false Teachers, and then they think every place in the Scripture makes for them. And this is the main cause of errors. They have mens persons in admiration; they do not judge of persons by their Doctrine, but their Doctrine by their persons: and when they are thus prepossessed, then they easily persuade every text is for them, or at least not contrary to them. A man that hath a noise of wind in his ears, thinketh he heareth the like abroad; and the distempered palate, thinketh every sweet thing bitter.
Secondly, Men swallow down first the sweet poison of errours from false Teachers, and then they think every place in the Scripture makes for them. And this is the main cause of errours. They have mens persons in admiration; they do not judge of persons by their Doctrine, but their Doctrine by their persons: and when they are thus prepossessed, then they easily perswade every text is for them, or at least not contrary to them. A man that hath a noise of wind in his ears, thinketh he heareth the like abroad; and the distempered palate, thinketh every sweet thing bitter.