A30242:569
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.
1. Of Debt, Rom. 4.8. To him that laboureth, the reward is of debt; and that is, when a man by his own power, doth those things which have an inward condignity and proportion with the reward, as it is in the payment of a day-labourer.
1. Of Debt, Rom. 4.8. To him that laboureth, the reward is of debt; and that is, when a man by his own power, doth those things which have an inward condignity and proportion with the reward, as it is in the paiment of a day-labourer.
2. There is a Reward of Grace and mere Promise. When such a reward is a sure consequent of such an antecedent; not that it was a Cause, or Merit, but God hath appointed such a necessary order and connection, as between grace and glory; glory necessarily followeth, not by causality of our works, though from grace, but by the fidelity of the promise. Hence God is said to be Debitor sibi, not nobis, reddit debita nulli debens; and therefore this eternal life, which is called a reward, is in other places called a gift, and [Greek or Hebrew], an Inheritance, very frequently, in allusion to the Land of Canaan; where several Tribes had their several portions of Land by lot, not according to any worth; and that the Ancients did mean no more by Meritum, our learned men show at large.
2. There is a Reward of Grace and meer Promise. When such a reward is a sure consequent of such an antecedent; not that it was a Cause, or Merit, but God hath appointed such a necessary order and connexion, as between grace and glory; glory necessarily followeth, not by causality of our works, though from grace, but by the fidelity of the promise. Hence God is said to be Debitor sibi, not nobis, reddit debita nulli debens; and therefore this eternal life, which is called a reward, is in other places called a gift, and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, an Inheritance, very frequently, in allusion to the Land of Canaan; where several Tribes had their several portions of Land by lot, not according to any worth; and that the Ancients did meane no more by Meritum, our learned men shew at large.