A30242:424
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, Where there is a true lively Faith, that will make a stout, though wise confession of the truth, when God doth require it. Rom. 10.10. With the heart man believeth, with the mouth confession is made to salvation; and the Apostle, We believe, therefore we speak, 2 Cor. 4.13. Indeed there is a faith about some disputable points in Religion, that are not essential to salvation, that the Apostle bids a man have it to himself, Rom. 14. but for the main points, the owning, or not owning whereof, is the owning or not owning of Christ. Our Saviour speaks terribly to the not confession herein, He that shall not confess me before men, though before a cro•ked and perverse generation, him will not I confess before my Father, nor the holy Angels, Mark 8.38.
Secondly, Where there is a true lively Faith, that will make a stout, though wise confession of the truth, when God doth require it. Rom. 10.10. With the heart man believeth, with the mouth confession is made to salvation; and the Apostle, We believe, therefore we speak, 2 Cor. 4.13. Indeed there is a faith about some disputable poin•s in Religion, that are not essential to salvation, that the Apostle bids a man have it to h•mself, Rom. 14. but for the main points, the owning, or not owning whereof, is the owning or not owning of Christ. Our Saviour speaks terribly to the not confession herein, He that shall not confesse me before men, though before a cro•ked and perverse generation, him will not I confesse before my Father, nor the holy Angels, Mark 8.38.