A30242:606
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.
First, It is God himself, communicating his goodness,1 and comfort to him that hath done his work: Then shall we be with the Lord for ever. This is called seeing ⟨p. 108⟩of God; and, seeing him as he is, 1 Joh. 3.2. No longer as in a glass. It's disputed, Whether formal Happiness consists in the acts of the understanding, as, knowing of God; or in the acts of the will, loving of him, and embracing of him: But we conclude, in both. So that this reward being God himself, as he told Abraham, it is infinite as he is, and as God himself is inestimable. Et tunc dignè eum aestimans quando inaestimabilem dicimus, & quicquid de Deo dici potest, eo ipso est indignum, quia dici potest. Thus it is of the reward. The great mercy covenanted in the Promise, is, That God will be our God; and this is completed in Heaven.
First, It is God himself, communicating his goodness,1 and comfort to him that hath done his work: Then shall we be with the Lord for ever. This is called seeing ⟨p. 108⟩of God; and, seeing him as he is, 1 Joh. 3.2. No longer as in a glass. It's disputed, Whether formal Happiness consists in the acts of the understanding, as, knowing of God; or in the acts of the will, loving of him, and embracing of him: But we conclude, in both. So that this reward being God himself, as he told Abraham, it is infinite as he is, and as God himself is inestimable. Et tunc dignè eum aestimans quando inaestimabilem dicimus, & quicquid de Deo dici potest, eo ipso est indignum, quia dici potest. Thus it is of the reward. The great mercy covenanted in the Promise, is, That God will be our God; and this is compleated in Heaven.
- 1The greatness of the heavenly reward.