A30242:1097
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.
Use of Admonition to you the people; see that in the matters of Religion you be no losers. Religion is every mans study, the Bible should be every mans book. Though God doth not require of you controversial and sublime Divinity, yet the knowledge of such Doctrines as are fundamental and necessary to salvation, you are to be acquainted with; yea, you are not to be always in principles, but as the Apostle saith, To be carried on to further perfection, Heb. 6.1. Now in all your study you may be losers. You may have a vain faith, a vain Religion, and that is, when it's not upon the Scripture-foundation; every man hopes he shall not lose. The Turk thinketh he shall not lose by believing his Alcoran. The Jew that ⟨p. 189⟩he shall not lose his expectation of a Messiah. The Papist hopes that all his Image worship, all his fastings and pilgrimages shall not be lost, but the Word speaketh contrary.
Ʋse of Admonition to you the people; see that in the matters of Religion you be no losers. Religion is every mans study, the Bible should be every mans book. Though God doth not require of you controversal and sublime Divinity, yet the knowledge of such Doctrines as are fundamental and necessary to salvation, you are to be acquainted with; yea, you are not to be alwayes in principles, but as the Apostle saith, To be carried on to further perfection, Heb. 6.1. Now in all your study you may be losers. You may have a vain faith, a vain Religion, and that is, when it's not upon the Scripture-foundation; every man hopes he shall not lose. The Turk thinketh he shall not lose by believing his Alcoran. The Jew that ⟨p. 189⟩he shall not lose his expectation of a Messiah. The Papist hopes that all his Image worship, all his fastings and pilgrimages shall not be lost, but the Word speaketh contrary.