A30242:1101
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.
1. Whereas you see erroneous and false Doctrines, though not overthrowing the foundation, do yet dangerously shake a mans salvation, puts it to a great hazard. Observe,
That even errors of judgement may endanger a mans salvation,1 as well as ungodliness in practice.
That even errours of judgement may endanger a mans salvation,1 as well as ungodlinesse in practice.
- 1Observ. Errors in judgment may damn a man, as well as a wicked life.Observ. Errours in judgment may damn a man, as well as a wicked life.
An unsound mind, as well as unsound life may undo a man. Austin once made a Question, and knew not well how to resolve it, viz. Which was worst, an Heretic living with an unblameable life, or an Orthodox man, with a vicious and corrupt life? Non audeo dicere, saith, I dare not determine it. Though Austin could not determine it; yet Salvian a religious and zealous Ancient, he seemeth to prefer an Heretic, if unblameable in his life, before a wicked liver. Now the truth is in some respects, one is worse than another; only herein there can be less said to excuse a profane wicked Christian than an Heretic, because moral duties, such as not to lie, swear, or to be drunk, or unclean, are more easily known, than many points in Religion, especially those which are of a sublime consideration: But yet if we speak in the general, they both do endanger a mans salvation. Thus the Apostle Peter saith, That ignorant men wrst the Scripture to their own destruction,