A30242:1392
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, The most knowing men were ignorant of original sin, which yet is the fountain of our calamity. The Heathens indeed bewailed the mortality and misery of man; but they know not our natural pollution, the ground of all. Yea, we see Paul himself, though a Pharisee, was not acquainted with that Law of sin within him, till enlightened by the Word, Rom. 7. Now if men know not their disease, or the cause of it, they can never be cured. So that whatsoever precepts about living well they delivered, yet they built on a sandy foundation, they did not dig deep enough.
First, The most knowing men were ignorant of original sinne, which yet is the fountain of our calamity. The Heathens indeed bewailed the mortality and misery of man; but they know not our natural pollution, the ground of all. Yea, we see Paul himself, though a Pharisee, was not acquainted with that Law of sinne within him, till inlightned by the Word, Rom. 7. Now if men know not their disease, or the cause of it, they can never be cured. So that whatsoever precepts about living well they delivered, yet they built on a sandy foundation, they did not dig deep enough.
Secondly, All humane wisdom and prudence knoweth not how to mortify and forsake sin upon true grounds, because they were ignorant of Gods Spirit. Rom. 8.13. If ye through the Spirit do mortify sin. They did not crucify the body of sin, nor bewail it, because it was sin, but for humane respects, as it did hinder the public, or as it was prejudicial to their glory and fame, but they overcame one lust by another.
Secondly, All humane wisdome and prudence knoweth not how to mortifie and forsake sinne upon true grounds, because they were ignorant of Gods Spirit. Rom. 8.13. If ye through the Spirit do mortifie sinne. They did not crucifie the body of sinne, nor bewail it, because it was sinne, but for humane respects, as it did hinder the publique, or as it was prejudicial to their glory and fame, but they overcame one lust by another.