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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.
Verse 4. For whereas one saith, I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollo, are ye not carnal?
The Apostles scope is (as you have heard) to repress the pride and contentions that were in the Church of Corinth. And now in this fourth Verse, he describeth the particular factions and divisions among them, One saith I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollo. Paul was the first Apostle that preached the Gospel to them, who though unskilful in speech as he saith, speaking as some think only by way of conception, yet was mighty in power through God to them. Apollo he came after Paul, and was more eloquent, and so more apt to affect the hearers, this some maketh the ground of the faction, but it is first disputed, ⟨p. 46⟩Whether indeed the Corinthians set up these eminent persons as heads of factions? or that he did only by supposition attribute these things to themselves, as may seem seem, 1 Cor. 4.6. I shall therefore wave that Question, and handle it when I come to consider these divisions in the heads of them, and whether it be lawful for Christians to name themselves after the names of any men? whereas then you see the Corinthians blamed for setting up these names, though men of great worth and repute in the Church. I observe
THe Apostles scope is (as you have heard) to repress the pride and contentions that were in the Church of Corinth. And now in this fourth Verse, he describeth the particular factions and divisions among them, One saith I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollo. Paul was the first Apostle that preached the Gospel to them, who though unskilful in speech as he saith, speaking as some think only by way of conception, yet was mighty in power through God to them. Apollo he came after Paul, and was more eloquent, and so more apt to affect the hearers, this some maketh the ground of the faction, but it is first disputed, ⟨p. 46⟩Whether indeed the Corinthians set up these eminent persons as heads of factions? or that he did only by supposition attribute these things to themselves, as may seem seem,