A30242:1217
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, There is an essential dwelling, or a gracious dwelling, by a special manifestation of more peculiar favours; we do not speak here of an essential dwelling, for so the Spirit of God is every where, Whither can I fly from thy presence? Psal. 139.7. Thus he hath the same divine Attribute, as God the Father and the Son have. Thus he filleth the whole world; But we speak of his gracious presence. Now how to make a difference between his essential presence, and his gracious presence, is impossible for men to express, because our knowledge of God is only apprehensive, not comprehensive. We see all the Schoolmen, labouring to this very day, to show how an Angel is present, and yet they have not waded out of those deeps. Only thus much we may in sobriety say, That though the Spirit of God be every where, yet he is said to be in his Church, because of those peculiar and gracious operations, which he produceth in them, and no where else. Even as God is said to be in Heaven, though he be in Earth, and no where else, because there is a peculiar manifestation of more glory and power from him. Thus then we are first to conceive of his presence. But.
First, There is an essential dwelling, or a gracious dwelling, by a special manifestation of more peculiar favours; we doe not speak here of an essential dwelling, for so the Spirit of God is every where, Whither can I flie from thy presence? Psal. 139.7. Thus he hath the same divine Attribute, as God the Father and the Sonne have. Thus he filleth the whole world; But we speak of his gracious presence. Now how to make a difference between his essential presence, and his gracious presence, is impossible for men to expresse, because our knowledge of God is onely apprehensive, not comprehensive. We see all the Schoolmen, labouring to this very day, to shew how an Angel is present, and yet they have not waded out of those deeps. Onely thus much we may in sobriety say, That though the Spirit of God be every where, yet he is said to be in his Church, because of those peculiar and gracious operations, which he produceth in them, and no where else. Even as God is said to be in Heaven, though he be in Earth, and no where else, because there is a peculiar manifestation of more glory and power from him. Thus then we are first to conceive of his presence. But.