A30242:1161
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.
Thirdly, Only in the Church are such persons, who are qualified for gracious Privileges. Here only is true Piety; here only is Faith, Repentance: Here only men do in a right manner pray to God. All those moral virtues, and excellent endowments amongst the Heathens, though gilded over, were nothing but dross.
Thirdly, Only in the Church are such persons, who are qualified for gracious Priviledges. Here only is true Piety; here only is Faith, Repentance: Here only men do in a right manner pray to God. All those moral vertues, and excellent endowments amongst the Heathens, though gilded over, were nothing but drosse.
Use of Instruction. Are the Churches of God, thus Temples of God? and should every one of us be thus in particular? Oh then, how holy, how godly, how orderly should all our Assemblies be? What Jeremiah can make Lamentations bitter enough, to see how this Temple of God is made a dunghill? How comes so much ignorance and profaneness to be amongst us? Are we not places prepared rather for the Devil and his evil Spirits to dwell with us, then Temples of the Holy Ghost? Know this, that your defilements are worse then those of Heathens; and therefore it's said, Judgment should begin at the House of God, 1 Pet. 4.17. And in Ezekiel's Prophecy, The destroying Angel is commanded to begin at the Sanctuary, Ezek. 9.6. Yet we sit and hear these things, and do not fear and tremble. Where is Gods gracious presence discovering it self? How few are the men that have God and his Spirit dwelling in them, but rather their souls are possessed with Devils? Hence ⟨p. 201⟩cometh that pride, that malice, that opposition unto all godliness. Oh then, let us so live, that we may say, Such men have God, and his Spirit dwelling in them! Be men affected with understanding of these things. To see nothing but a man in you, nothing of God; yea, to see nothing but a Beast or a Devil in you, how contrary is it to that holy relation we stand in?