A30242:288
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.
11. Highly to account of the office and the work of the Ministry, as being the divine institution and appointment of Christ in his Church. Thus the Apostle Chap. 4.1. Let a man account of us as the stewards of Christ. They are the officers set up in Christs house, to give the food of life, and God hath set in his Church, pastors and teachers, 1 Cor. 12.28. and Eph. 4.11. Act. 20.28. The Elders of the Church are said to be made overseers by God, to feed the Church. So that if any man set himself against the office of the Ministry, to slight it, or contemn it, he doth immediately oppose the institution of Christ. God hath set it, and wilt thou endeavour to pull it down, so that profane and carnal men who argue against it, know not what they talk of, they consider not the Scripture, nor the Word of God: and if thy heart were not much hardened, thou wouldst have an awful reverence and fear of this divine office. Even the very Heathens have exalted the office of their Priests that drew nigh to God, and Aristotle well observeth, that all religion, yea and the notion of the gods themselves would be vilified, when ⟨p. 47⟩they that were employed in that office, were contemned.
11. Highly to account of the office and the work of the Ministery, as being the divine institution and appointment of Christ in his Church. Thus the Apostle Chap. 4.1. Let a man account of us as the stewards of Christ. They are the officers set up in Christs house, to give the food of life, and God hath set in his Church, pastors and teachers, 1 Cor. 12.28. and Eph. 4.11. Act. 20.28. The Elders of the Church are said to be made overseers by God, to feed the Church. So that if any man set himself against the office of the Ministery, to slight it, or contemne it, he doth immediately oppose the institution of Christ. God hath set it, and wilt thou endeavour to pull it down, so that prophane and carnal men who argue against it, know not what they talk of, they consider not the Scripture, nor the Word of God: and if thy heart were not much hardened, thou wouldst have an awfull reverence and fear of this divine office. Even the very Heathens have exalted the office of their Priests that drew nigh to God, and Aristotle well observeth, that all religion, yea and the notion of the gods themselves would be vilified, when