A30242:275
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.
Fourthly, To walk like men, is to be full of falsehood, deceitfulness, or hypocrisy, to have no truth in heart or word one to another. Thus David saith, Every man is a liar; and he makes that sad complaint, Help Lord, for the good and faithful man perisheth; every man speaketh vanity to his neighbour, Psal. 12.1. Oh this is the way of men upon the earth! Hence the Scripture exhorts us, Not to put trust in men, (Psal. 146.3.) no not in Princes, or the great ones of the world. Oh but all such lying, hypocrisy and dissimulation should not be named among Christians! Christiana fides should be far more firm and resolved, than Romana fides. Let us love (saith the Apostle) not in word only, but in heart and deed also, 1 John 3.18. The Christians at first did meet together with one heart, and one accord. The very Poet said, he hated him even to hell, who spake one thing with his mouth, and thought another thing in his heart. Know then, that cunning Artifices, and lying dissimulations are far from that truth that God desireth in the inward parts. Christs sheep must not be the Devils foxes. It was the Heathens desire, That his breast might be as transparent as glass, that so all his thoughts within him might be seen. How should this shame the guile, dissimulations and falsehoods that are in men one to another?
Fourthly, To walk like men, is to be full of falshood, deceitfulnesse, or hypocrisie, to have no truth in heart or word one to another. Thus David saith, Every man is a liar; and he makes that sad complaint, Help Lord, for the good and faithfull man perisheth; every man speaketh vanity to his neighbour, Psal. 12.1. Oh this is the way of men upon the earth! Hence the Scripture exhorts us, Not to put trust in men, (Psal. 146.3.) no not in Princes, or the great ones of the world. Oh but all such lying, hypocrisie and dissimulation should not be named among Christians! Christiana fides should be farre more firm and resolved, than Romana fides. Let us love (saith the Apostle) not in word only, but in heart and deed also, 1 John 3.18