A30242:331
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.
Secondly, If he cannot hurt the Church this way, then by raising up Ministers full of superstition, and doting upon unwritten traditions, and bringing in a will-worship, 1where there is no rule or warrant. [One man though learned is not able to maintain his new notion of [Greek or Hebrew], will-worship, as if it were in a good sense, against the general sense of many others; and this doth exceedingly please ignorant people. What opposition did Paul find by such, that taught taste not, touch not, that brought in worshipping of Angels, and left Christ the Head? and all this was done under a colour of wisdom and humility, Col. 2.23. Even as in Popery still they urge we must have the Saints and Angels Mediators to God for us; for is it fit, say they, an inferior person should go into the presence of a great King, without the favourite? Thus the Heathens argued of old, and thus the Papists; now these things carry a show of humility, and so those thousands of superstitious ceremonies and ways of worship that have been brought into the Church, they come under the name of zeal and devotion; but observe the Scripture, you shall see Baptism, the Lords Supper, when purely administered although in a grave and holy way, yet in such simplicity and plainness, that there is not the least mention of the least ceremony or traditional worship that afterwards was introduced; and this the Apostle meant when he said, He was afraid lest the Serpent should beguile them from the simplicity of the Gospel of Christ, 1 Cor. 11.3. Oh that is a worthy place! there is a simplicity in the Doctrine, Worship, and life of the Gospel, and your minds are easily corrupted from this.
Secondly, If he cannot hurt the Church this way, then by raising up Ministers full of superstition, and doting upon unwritten traditions, and bringing in a will-worship, 1where there is no rule or warrant. [One man though learned is not able to maintain his new notion of 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, will-worship, as if it were in a good sense, against the general sense of many others; and this doth exceedingly please ignorant people. What opposition did Paul find by such, that taught tast not, touch not, that brought in worshipping of Angels, and left Christ the Head? and all this was done under a colour of wisdome and humility,