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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, The godly mans heart is not commonly so obstinate and seared, as the wicked mans is. Those that brought in the doctrines of Devils into the Church, are said to have a seared conscience, 1 Tim 4.2. They felt nothing, they did not doubt or suspect, [What if this be a damnable error that thou maintainest? What if thou art a means, not only to damn thy self, but many others?] No; they are commonly men of a reprobate mind. But the godly, though grievously seduced, yet sometimes they have strugglings, they have an holy jealousy over themselves; they bewail their proneness to err. Even as it is in gross sins, the godly man sinneth not with that hearty and full consent that others do.
Thirdly, The godly mans heart is not commonly so obstinate and seared, as the wicked mans is. Those that brought in the doctrines of Devils into the Church, are said to have a seared conscience, 1 Tim 4.2. They felt nothing, they did not doubt or suspect, [What if this be a damnable errour that thou maintainest? What if thou art a means, not only to damn thy self, but many others?] No; they are commonly men of a reprobate mind. But the godly, though grievously seduced, yet sometimes they have struglings, they have an holy jealousie over themselves; they bewail their pronenesse to erre. Even as it is in grosse sinnes, the godly man sinneth not with that hearty and full consent that others doe.
A third thing to open this point,1 is to consider a difference between the defilements of the Temple by false Doctrines. Some are only in accessory and less prinpall things, and such were those who built bay and stubble; their errors were consistent with salvation: He shall be saved, but so as by fire. But others are Fundamental, destroying the very soul and essence of true Faith and true Piety. Now the latter are such whom God will certainly destroy. I know it is that Question, which hath kept so many learned men, like Abraham's Ram, in the thickets, what are Fundamentals, what points are necessary to Salvation, and what not: but though it be hard to parcel out the number, yet that there are such, the Scripture is plain, in that it calls them first Principles, and tells us of a Foundation which must be laid: Of which formerly.