A30242:595
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, There is an Accidental Reward; and that is, Some Degrees of Glory: Because of greater labour and sufferings for Christ, one may partake of more Glory then another. For, though all the glorified Saints are compared to Stars, yet as one Star differeth from another in Glory; so it's here. In Justification, all the godly are equal, though some men have more sins pardoned then others; yet, the acceptation of them through Christ, is equal. So that intensively, though not extensively, all are alike justified. But in salvation, there are Thrones prepared for some above others. Neither in that ambitious Petition of the Mother of Zebedee's Children did our Saviour deny, there were chiefer places then other in his Kingdom, but he rebuked their carnal apprehensions about such things, Mat. 20.33. Thus you have a Prophets Reward spoken of as a greater Reward then others, because of their choice work for God; and the manifold contradictions they endure from sinners, because of their labour.
Secondly, There is an Accidental Reward; and that is, Some Degrees of Glory: Because of greater labour and sufferings for Christ, one may partake of more Glory then another. For, though all the glorified Saints are compared to Stars, yet as one Star differeth from another in Glory; so it's here. In Justification, all the godly are equall, though some men have more sinnes pardoned then others; yet, the acceptation of them through Christ, is equall. So that intensively, though not extensively, all are alike justified. But in salvation, there are Thrones prepared for some above others. Neither in that ambitious Petition of the Mother of Zebedees Children did our Saviour deny, there were chiefer places then other in his Kingdom, but he rebuked their carnal apprehensions about such things, Mat. 20.33. Thus you have a Prophets Reward spoken of as a greater Reward then others, because of their choice work for God; and the manifold contradictions they endure from sinners, because of their labour.
Secondly, It's lawful to encourage a mans self in working for God, by this, that there is a Reward. There is a lawful self-seeking, viz. of immortality,