A30242:1152
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.
Secondly, The Materials of the Temple were very excellent and precious, of gold and silver, &c. not hay and stubble. The best stone, the best wood, that would not putrefy; and all things were covered over with gold, and the gold was to be pure gold; even the very snuffers were to be of gold. Now what did this represent, but to show what kind of people those should be, who were of the Church of God; even as much differing from the others, as gold and precious stones from pebble stones; as precious wood from briers? So then, if we be the Temple of God, we ought to be a people of more noble and heavenly Conversation then the world can reach unto. There ought to be no sinful debasing ways amongst us. As Michall, though falsely, said to David, dancing before the Ark, Thou hast made thy self like one of the vile fellows of the Land; it is thus truly with thee, if thou runnest into any excess of riot that the world greedily pursueth, Thou hast made thy self like a Dunghill, not Gods Temple.
Secondly, The Materials of the Temple were very excellent and precious, of gold and silver, &c. not hay and stubble. The best stone, the best wood, that would not putrifie; and all things were covered over with gold, and the gold was to be pure gold; even the very snuffers were to be of gold. Now what did this represent, but to shew what kind of people those should be, who were of the Church of God; even as much differing from the others, as gold and precious stones from pibble stones; as precious wood from bryers? So then, if we be the Temple of God, we ought to be a people of more noble and heavenly Conversation then the world can reach unto. There ought to be no sinfull debasing waies amongst us. As Michall, though falsly, said to David, dancing before the Ark, Thou hast made thy self like one of the vile fellowes of the Land; it is thus truly with thee, if thou runnest into any excesse of ryot that the world greedily pursueth, Thou hast made thy self like a Dunghill, not Gods Temple.