A30242:1127
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.
That which at this time I insist on, is, To show what a goad and spur to all purity and holiness in Doctrine and Manners the, consideration of Church-Privileges, Church-Titles, and Relations a•e Thus Rom. 6.3. Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death? Ignorance of the extent of their baptism, what it did signify, and oblige to, ⟨p. 194⟩made them live in sin. I know nothing more to be complained of, then that people generally rest in this, They are the Church of God; They are Christians; They are baptized: but they do not understand what these things mean, nor what they oblige them unto. It would make us all tremble, to consider the vast disproportion between our Names, our Relations, and our lives. This hath occasioned many to run into an extremity, to say, We have no true Churches, no true members of a Church amongst us; because the ignorance, corruption, and profaneness is so great amongst us: though therein they go beyond bounds. For, this Church of Corinth was not unchurched, by the disorders and corruptions amongst it.
That which at this time I insist on, is, To shew what a goade and spurre to all purity and holinesse in Doctrine and Manners the, consideration of Church-Priviledges, Church-Titles, and Relations a•e Thus Rom. 6.3. Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death? Ignorance of the extent of their baptism, what it did signifie, and oblige to, ⟨p. 194⟩made them live in sinne. I know nothing more to be complained of, then that people generally rest in this, They are the Church of God; They are Christians; They are baptized: but they do not understand what these things mean, nor what they oblige them unto. It would make us all tremble, to consider the vast disproportion between our Names, our Relations, and our lives. This hath occasioned many to runne into an extremity, to say, We have no true Churches, no true members of a Church amongst us; because the ignorance, corruption, and prophaneness is so great amongst us: though therein they go beyond bounds. For, this Church of Corinth was not unchurched, by the disorders and corruptions amongst it.