A30242:1062
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.
Thirdly, This good building of truth, doth not only abide the fire,1 but desireth the fire; it's willing to come to the Touchstone. The thief hateth the light because his deeds are evil. Heresy and false Doctrine doth not love the Touchstone, no more then the Owl the Sun. Hence it is, that being provoked to go to the Scriptures, they accuse the Scriptures of insufficiency and imperfction. It's a saying of Lindan a great Papist, living in the first time of the Reformation, That it had been better, if they had never yielded to the Protestants to prove things by Scripture, but kept only to tradition. Whensoever any erroneous persons begin to disparage, or to dethrone the Scripture, not to adore the fullness and sufficiency of it, as a Rule, suspect that man; he is like the Elephant, which because he cannot endure to see himself in the water, is said to disturb and bemuddy it. So that the truths of God do not shun the fiery trial.
Thirdly, This good building of truth, doth not only abide the fire,1 but desireth the fire; it's willing to come to the Touchstone. The thief hateth the light because his deeds are evil. Heresie and false Doctrine doth not love the Touchstone, no more then the Owle the Sunne. Hence it is, that being provoked to go to the Scriptures, they accuse the Scriptures of insufficiency and imperfction. It's a saying of Lindan a great Papist, living in the first time of the Reformation, That it had been better, if they had never yeilded to the Protestants to prove things by Scripture, but kept only to tradition. Whensoever any erroneus persons begin to disparage, or to dethrone the Scripture, not to adore the fulnesse and sufficiency of it, as a Rule, suspect that man; he is like the Elephant, which because he cannot endure to see himself in the water, is said to disturbe and bemuddy it. So that the truths of God do not shun the fiery tryal.
- 1Truth willing to be tried.Truth willing to be tryed.