A30242:265
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.
Sometimes it is put for love and mildness. Thus God said in Hosea, Hos. 11.4. He drew them by the cords of a man; that is, love. And so, to chastise with the rod of man, (2 Sam. 7.14.) is to do it moderately and mercifully.
At other times, the Phrase, to speak after a man, denotes, to use any similitude, or Comparison from matters used amongst men, Gal. 3.15.
But most frequently, the word is used in a debasing way: Either for frailty and misery; As, What is man? And, That they may know themselves to be but men, Psal. 9.20. Ye shall die like men. Or else, for that which is sinful and wicked; because man is wholly corrupted and plunged into all sin, Rom. 6.19 Hos. 6.9 So that to call one a man, or to say a man, you name all sin and misery at the same time. Oh, how should this debase and vilify the proudest and highest of men! How should this make them look upon themselves as worse then Toads or Serpents, in many respects? And in this sense it is used here: Walk ye not as men, in opposition to God, his Power, and Holiness, which he demonstrated in all Believers.
But most frequently, the word is used in a debasing way: Either for frailty and misery; As, What is man? And, That they may know themselves to be but men,