A30242:1138
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.
Use of Instruction. The reason of the deluge of all errors and profaneness, is for want of good logic: They do not infer good conclusions from good Premises. For to be a Church, to be Christians; to be Believers of such sure and certain things, do not those infer to all, What manner of persons should we be in all godliness and holiness of Conversation? Do you not know these things? Are not these things acknowledged by all? How then can wickedness and sin be found in any mans life? Oh, men be either desperate Atheists or, mad fools! Atheists, if we believe not these things; fools, if we believe, yet our lives not answerable thereunto. What wilt thou plead at the day of Judgment? What will thy own conscience say for thee? Wilt thou not become immediately ⟨p. 197⟩speechless, not able to open thy mouth, when God shall command to take such a sinner, such a wicked man, and bind him hand and foot, and throw him into Hell? If these things be not true, deny them; if you cannot, you dare not deny them, then go home, and mourn in secret, and meditate in secret on these things.
Ʋse of Instruction. The reason of the deluge of all errours and prophanenesse, is for want of good logick: They do not inferre good conclusions from good Premises. For to be a Church, to be Christians; to be Believers of such sure and certain things, do not those inferre to all, What manner of persons should we be in all godlinesse and holinesse of Conversation? Do you not know these things? Are not these things acknowledged by all? How then can wickednesse and sinne be found in any mans life? Oh, men be either desperate Atheists or, mad fools! Atheists, if we believe not these things; fools, if we believe, yet our lives not answerable thereunto. What wilt thou plead at the day of Judgment? What will thy own conscience say for thee? Wilt thou not become immediately ⟨p. 197⟩speechlesse, not able to open thy mouth, when God shall command to take such a sinner, such a wicked man, and bind him hand and foot, and throw him into Hell? If these things be not true, deny them; if you cannot, you dare not deny them, then go home, and mourn in secret, and meditate in secret on these things.