A30242:1272
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.
2. The Manner how, they shall privily bring in. There is great craft and subtlety; there is underworking, as Moles do under-ground.
2. The Manner how, they shall privily bring in. There is great craft and subtilty; there is underworking, as Moles do under-ground.
Then you have the consequent evil of this, They bring upon themselves swift destruction. Here is more then in my text, not only destruction, but swift destruction. That is two ways swift:
Then you have the consequent evil of this, They bring upon themselves swift destruction. Here is more then in my text, not only destruction, but swift destruction. That is two waies swift:
First, Because God will not delay: He is so provoked, that he cannot bear them long. And then
Secondly, Swift in regard of their thoughts: It comes before they thought of, or expected any such thing. And whereas it may be said, They prosper, they meet with no such visible wrath of God, see verse 4. Whose judgment lingereth not, and whose damnation sleepeth not. All the while they are secure, their judgment doth but watch the time, the fittest time to make their destruction more dreadful.