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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.
If hay and stubble will put us to such danger, what then will evident poison? If these errors of the mind, which are so hardly prevented, what will the constant lusts, and daily infirmities, even of all men? Which makes the Apostle Peter say, The righteous man is scarcely saved, 1 Pet. 4.18. Which although some understand of a temporal salvation, he is very hardly delivered from those temporal afflictions that fall out in this life; yet by consequence it reacheth to eternal salvation. Hence is that command, To work out our salvation with fear and trembling, Phil. 2.12. Yea Paul, who had one foot in Heaven, yet he said, He kept under his body, lest while he preached to others, he himself should be a reprobate, 1 Cor. 9. ult.
If hay and stubble will put us to such danger, what then will evident poison? If these errours of the mind, which are so hardly prevented, what will the constant lusts, and daily infi•mities, even of all men? Which makes the Apostle Peter say, The righteous man is scarcely saved, 1 Pet. 4.18. Which although some understand of a temporal salvation, he is very hardly delivered from those temporal afflictions that fall out in this life; yet by consequence it reacheth to eternal salvation. Hence is that command, To work out our salvation with fear and trembling, Phil. 2.12. Yea Paul, who had one foot in Heaven, yet he said, He kept under his body, lest while he preached to others, he himself should be a reprobate, 1 Cor. 9. ult.
Now the Grounds of these truths are,