A30242:1210
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.
First, The propriety that it hath to us, that we are his possession, as an house is a mans own, where he is Lord and Master. And this is worthy of consideration, That we who once were the Devils, he dwelt in us, He ruleth in the hearts of the disobedient, Ephes. 2. have now him expelled from us, and the Spirit of God taking us for his possession. We pity persons bodily possessed, that they foam and roar, and are thrown sometimes into the fire, and sometimes in the water; but he who is a wicked man, the Devil possesseth his soul more dreadfully: he puts him upon anger, malice, upon unclean lusts, and noisome filthy ways; and though many be of the Church visibly, yet in regard of their own particular, they are thus possessed by the Devil, who hath their heart, their eyes, their tongues, their whole body; so that they seem to be a walking Hell: So that herein is a wonderful change, when the Spirit of God comes and takes possession of a people, who before were captives to Satan, and led aside according to his will, 2 Tim. 2.26.
First, The propriety that it hath to us, that we are his possession, as an house is a mans own, where he is Lord and Master. And this is worthy of consideration, That we who once were the Devils, he dwelt in us, He ruleth in the hearts of the disobedient, Ephes. 2. have now him expelled from us, and the Spirit of God taking us for his possession. We pity persons bodily possessed, that they foame and rore, and are throwne sometimes into the fire, and sometimes in the water; but he who is a wicked man, the Devil possesseth his soul more dreadfully: he puts him upon anger, malice, upon unclean lusts, and noisome filthy wayes; and though many be of the Church visibly, yet in regard of their own particular, they are thus possessed by the Devil, who hath their heart, their eyes, their tongues, their whole body; so that they seem to be a walking Hell: So that herein is a wonderfull change, when the Spirit of God comes and takes possession of a people, who before were captives to Satan, and led aside according to his will, 2 Tim. 2.26.