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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.
Use. 2. You that are godly especially, take heed of this: How contrary is this spirit of envy, to that love Christ hath put into you? He prayed most earnestly, as the great thing before his death, that the godly might be one, How then comes envyings, and bitter thoughts among you? you that ought to have one heart, one mind, yea to lay down your lives for one another: How comes this devilish sin to be in you? How come doves to have gall? Christ that thought it no robbery to be equal to God, yet became in the form of a contemptible man, for the godly's sake; and hast thou so much glory, or honour, to deny thy self in, as he had? Grudge not one against another, or sigh not, as the Greek is; no godly man, should have the least bitterness, or inward sighs, and discontentedness against another, Jam 5 9.
Ʋse. 2. You that are godly especially, take heed of this: How contrary is this spirit of envy, to that love Christ hath put into you? He prayed most earnestly, as the great thing before his death, that the godly might be one, How then comes envyings, and bitter thoughts among you? you that ought to have one heart, one mind, yea to lay down your lives for one another: How comes this divelish sinne to be in you? How come doves to have gall? Christ that thought it no robbery to be equall to God, yet became in the forme of a contemptible man, for the godlyes sake; and hast thou so much glory, or honour, to deny thy self in, as he had? Grudge not one against another, or sigh not, as the Greek is; no godly man, should have the least bitterness, or inward sighs, and discontentedness against another, Jam 5 9.
Let us in the next place, consider the aggravation of this sin, and howsoever the heathenish Poets, have described it in such an ugly, loathsome,1 and deformed shape, that all may see the unloveliness of it; yet they being matter only of fancy, and witty invention, we shall draw the portraiture of it from the Word of God, which is a two-edged sword, and every arrow from this quiver, may justly strike to the heart of it.
Let us in the next place, consider the aggravation of this sinne, and howsoever the heathenish Poets, have described it in such an ugly, loathsome,