A30242:132
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.
Verse 3. For ye are yet carnal.
Paul having in the verse before declared the reason, why he fed them with children's milk, viz. because they were not able to digest solid meat. In this verse, he comes to the Designation or Specification of this their Infancy and Incapacity. And this he declareth, 1. Generally, For ye are yet carnal. 2. Particularly, In their envyings, strifes, and factions that were amongst them.
PAul having in the verse before declared the reason, why he fed them with childrens milk, viz. because they were not able to digest solid meat. In this verse, he comes to the Designation or Specification of this their Infancy and Incapacity. And this he declareth, 1. Generally, For ye are yet carnal. 2. Particularly, In their envyings, strifes, and factions that were amongst them.
At this time, let us view the General, For ye are carnal. In what sense the Apostle called them so, is explained, vers. 1. viz. not absolutely, but comparatively. They had the seed and root of grace, but yet corruption was also very prevalent in them.
Object. To what hath been said in explication of this, you may make one Objection, Why the Apostle, if they were godly for the main, doth call them carnal: Is it not a certain Rule, that the denomination ought to be from the greater or better part? Do we not say, there is an heap of wheat, though some chaff and cockle be among it? And do not the Orthodox say thus to the Papists? For when the Papists say, That if there be corruption in every work we do, if a godly man hath a principle of sin in him, as well as of grace; Then (say they) we may as well call him a wicked man as a godly man, we may as well call it a sinful action, as a godly action.