A30242:1117
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.
Now the Grounds of these truths are,
First, From the exactness and strictness that is in the way to Heaven. Godliness is on the high hill, as he placed virtue. Strive to enter in at the strait gate, Luke 13.24. Be in an agony; yea, how strait is it, as in Matth 7 14 by exclamation, few do enter therein? To lay out the nature of a godly man, or godliness from Scripture-rules, would be almost like Tullies description of a perfect Orator; or Plato of a Commonwealth. Our Saviour speaking of the difficulty of a rich man to be saved, that is, one who trusteth in them, as one Evangelist saith, Mar. 10.24 The Disciples cry out, Who then can be saved? They do not say, What rich man? but who can be saved? because every man hath something or other be trusteth in, as well as the rich man in his riches.
First, From the exactnesse and strictnesse that is in the way to Heaven. Godlinesse is on the high hill, as he placed virtue. Strive to enter in at the strait gate, Luke 13.24. Be in an agony; yea, how strait is it, as in Matth 7 14 by exclamation, few do enter therein? To lay out the nature of a godly man, or godlinesse from Scripture-rules, would be almost like Tullies description of a perfect Orator; or Plato of a Commonwealth. Our Saviour speaking of the difficulty of a rich man to be saved, that is, one who trusteth in them, as one Evangelist saith, Mar. 10.24 The Disciples cry out, Who then can be saved? They do not say, What rich man? but who can be saved? because every man hath something or other be trusteth in, as well as the rich man in his riches.