A30242:268
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.
Doct. That all those who are named Christians, and would be accounted so, yet walk and live., as those that are more than mere men.
Doct. That all those who are named Christians, and would be accounted so, yet walke and live., as those that are more than meer men.
1They must not live according to the ways, ignorance, folly, and customs of the world, They are to shine as lights amongst a froward and crooked generation, Phil. 2.14. Pure Religion, is said to keep it self unspotted from the world, Jam. 1.27. All the wicked and ungodly ways in it, are not to defile and soil him. As they speak of a River called Alpheus, that emptieth it self in the Sea, yet even in the very Sea it keepeth its sweetness, and is not made salt and brackish, as the waters of the Sea are. They are in the world, but not of it. Hence Rom. 12. Be ye not conformed unto the fashion of the world; but be transformed in your minds. Here you may see, who are men of the best fashion in a place, not men of the greatest wealth, honours, or earthly dignity; but who do not conform to the fashion of the world; that hath not the cursing, swearing, lying, uncleanness, and all the works of darkness, that the world is said to lie in.
1They must not live according to the wayes, ignorance, folly, and customes of the world, They are to shine as lights amongst a froward and crooked generation, Phil. 2.14. Pure Religion, is said to keep it self unspotted from the world, Jam. 1.27. All the wicked and ungodly wayes in it, are not to defile and soil him. As they speak of a River called Alpheus, that emptieth it self in the Sea, yet even in the very Sea it keepeth its sweetnesse, and is not made salt and brackish, as the waters of the Sea are. They are in the world, but not of it. Hence