A30242:581
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, It's acceptable labouring, when it is done in such a manner. For God doth not accept of any labour for him, merely from the painfulness of it; For if a man give his body to be burnt, and have not love to God, it's nothing worth. Not (I say) from the painfulness or length of time, but from other qua•i••cations; and they are these,
Secondly, It's acceptable labouring, when it is done in such a manner. For God doth not accept of any labour for him, meerly from the painfulnesse of it; For if a man give his body to be burnt, and have not love to God, it's nothing worth. Not (I say) from the painfulnesse or length of time, but from other qua•i••cations; and they are these,
1. It's profitable working, when the persons are first made the Lords, when they are justified and sanctified. Make the tree good, and then the fruit will be good. The person must be first sanctified, ere any work can be acceptable: He is an unclean person till then, and all things are unclean; To the defiled all things become defiled, Tit. 1.15. Oh that people would attend to this! They only look to the good matter of the work; they pray, they give alms, they live soberly, but they have no knowledge about the root thereof. Are their persons justified, their natures sanctified, without which no work of God can be done acceptably.
2. A Reward is due to that work only, which is done for Gods sake, out of love to him. The Pharisees praying, and other acts of Religion, have a terrible verdict by Christ upon them, Verily I say unto you, they have their reward,