A30242:1293
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.
This is the punishment threatened to the Temple-defilers, and though but two words, God destroy, yet both have their weight. There are many evils and calamities that yet are not a destruction, that is the utmost of all penal evils; and then, it's a destruction from God, whose wrath is like himself, Incomprehensible: It's not man, but God shall destroy.
This is the punishment threatned to the Temple-defilers, and though but two words, God destroy, yet both have their weight. There are many evils and calamities that yet are not a destruction, that is the utmost of all paenall evils; and then, it's a destruction from God, whose wrath is like himself, Incomprehensible: It's not man, but God shall destroy.
Now what this destruction is, we have told you; not an annihilation of soul and body, as Socinians would have it; not a Physical destruction, but moral, viz. depriving the wicked man of all happiness and comfort. We have handled this relatively already, as it is the Portion of the Temple-defilers, I shall now consider it absolutely: Eternal wrath and damnation is described here under the name of destruction, which is the reward of every wicked impenitent man, whether his sins be intellectual or bodily. And the Doctrine I shall raise, is,
Now what this destruction is, we have told you; not an annihilation of soul and body, as Socinians would have it; not a Physical destruction, but moral, viz. depriving the wicked man of all happinesse and comfort. We have handled this relatively already, as it is the Portion of the Temple-defilers, I shall now consider it absolutely: Eternal wrath and damnation is described here under the name of destruction, which is the reward of every wicked impenitent man, whether his sinnes be intellectual or bodily. And the Doctrine I shall raise, is,