A30242:1099
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.
A two-fold loss (you heard) was here threatened to erroneous teachers. And the first part we have dispatched, and now proceed to the later; and the phrase is already explained.
A two-fold losse (you heard) was here threatned to erroneous teachers. And the first part we have dispatched, and now proceed to the later; and the phrase is already explained.
To be saved as by fire] signifieth, The great extremity and danger such a man is in of damnation: He is like a fire-brand pulled out of the fire. For that explication of some of the Greek Fathers, especially Chrysostom, who in many other places of the New Testament, doth often judiciously interpret, is in this particular very incredible; He shall be saved (saith he) that is, he shall be kept alive, and yet in hell fire. So that he thinketh the Apostle saith, he shall be damned, yet this damnation is a kind of a living death, and a dying life, he shall be always in hell fire, yet saved alive. He doth use (saith Chrysostom) a good word in a sad and evil matter, Every one may see this is forced. We stand therefore to the former explication, as that which is most genuine. And two things may be observed very material:
To be saved as by fire] signifieth, The great extremity and danger such a man is in of damnation: He is like a fire-brand pulled out of the fire. For that explication of some of the Greek Fathers, especially Chrysostome, who in many other places of the New Testament, doth often judiciously interpret, is in this particular very incredible; He shall be saved (saith he) that is, he shall be kept alive, and yet in hell fire. So that he thinketh the Apostle saith, he shall be damned, yet this damnation is a kind of a living death, and a dying life, he shall be alwayes in hell fire, yet saved alive. He doth use (saith Chrysostome) a good word in a sad and evil matter, Every one may see this is forced. We stand therefore to the former explication, as that which is most genuine. And two things may be observed very material: