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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.
To open this point, I shall but give you drops out of the Ocean of this matter. It's a subject to be handled with tears; only the Scripture gives cordials, that the godly should not sink under it.
To open this point, I shall but give you drops out of the Ocean of this matter. It's a subject to be handled with tears; onely the Scripture gives cordials, that the godly should not sink under it.
1First, Let us divide, (for Logical divisions are good to teach and instruct, though Church divisions are not) and then show wherein the Nature of a division, or faction lieth. Then the Reasons, why such things will be. Divisions or Factions may be either,
1First, Let us divide, (for Logical divisions are good to teach and instruct, though Church divisions are not) and then shew wherein the Nature of a division, or faction lieth. Then the Reasons, why such things will be. Divisions or Factions may be either,
- 1Divisions divided.
11. Civil, or Ecclesiastical. Civil, are all those rents and ruptures that are made by the lusts of men in a Commonwealth. Thus Jeroboam made a division, he rent ten Tribes from the other two, and made a distinct Kingdom; and which, would make one wonder, but that God had foretold it, those ten Tribes never re-united again, that breach was never made up. These Civil seditions are sad Prognostics of the destruction of those places where they are, as the renting of the Temple, was a Prognostic of the abolition of all the Jewish worship. Aristotle giving several differences between Monarchy and Tyranny, reckons this for one, That tyranny makes and foments factions, nourisheth divisions, that so while people have a mutual hatred against, and diffidence one in another, that reigneth the more securely, according to that Rule, Divide & impera. But this is wicked policy. Our Saviour calls those blessed, that are peace-makers; and they who endeavour to make all the godly as one man, do instrumentally accomplish Christs prayer for this thing. It was horrible wickedness in Ahitophel, to persuade Absalom to go into his fathers Concubines, thinking thereby to make a perpetual irreconcilableness These are not the Scripture-rules of State government.