A30242:1423
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
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Fourthly, In Christianity, we have not only the true end propounded, but the right means also, whereby we may attain it. For prudence lieth in the choosing of fit and conducible means to such an end: So that as in any art, no man can by his art produce artificial operations without fit tools: So neither can we in our actions as rational men, arrive to the true end. viz. happiness; without those fit means appointed thereunto; and this is only by Christ, as the meritorious cause, and by faith, as the instrumental; by Christ we have peace with God, and by faith we are partakers of Christ. Now this whole order and dispensation the world is altogether ignorant of; all the wisdom of man would not pitch upon such a way as this, by Christ, and through faith in Christ. But when Paul is made wise in an heavenly manner, He desireth to know nothing, but Christ crucified; and, He accounts all things dung and dross for the righteousness which is by faith, Phil. 3.9.
Fourthly, In Christianity, we have not only the true end propounded, but the right means also, whereby we may attain it. For prudence lieth in the chusing of fit and conducible means to such an end: So that as in any art, no man can by his art produce artificial operations without fit tools: So neither can we in our actions as rational men, arrive to the true end. viz. happinesse; without those fit means appointed thereunto; and this is only by Christ, as the meritorious cause, and by faith, as the instrumental; by Christ we have peace with God, and by faith we are partakers of Christ. Now this whole order and dispensation the world is altogether ignorant of; all the wisdom of man would not pitch upon such a way as this, by Christ, and through faith in Christ. But when Paul is made wise in an heavenly manner, He desireth to know nothing, but Christ crucified; and, He accounts all things dung and drosse for the righteousnesse which is by faith, Phil. 3.9.
Fifthly, By Christianity we are only taught to avoid that which causeth repentance and grief of mind after it's done. David said, by the Word of God he was forewarned from sin,