A30242:625
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.
Neither in the third place is the meaning of it, as if the Ministers of God, in what they laboured, did it by their own power. No, when the Apostle said, I laboured more abundantly than they all, he addeth, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me, 1 Cor. 15.10. Therefore God first enables them to work; They are [Greek or Hebrew], before they be [Greek or Hebrew], sub-operators before co-operators.
Neither in the third place is the meaning of it, as if the Ministers of God, in what they laboured, did it by their own power. No, when the Apostle said, I laboured more abundantly than they all, he addeth, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me, 1 Cor. 15.10. Therefore God first inables them to work; They are 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, before they be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, sub-operatours before co-operatours.
But the sense in the first place, though not generally received, may be this, We are Gods workers together in his vineyard, or for him. So that the Preposition [Greek or Hebrew], will not have relation to God, but to fellow-labourers, as Paul calls others, his fellow-labourers. Timothy is called his [Greek or Hebrew], Rom. 16.21 But
But the sense in the first place, though not generally received, may be this, We are Gods workers together in his vineyard, or for him. So that the Preposition 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, will not have relation to God, but to fellow-labourers, as Paul cals others, his fellow-labourers. Timothy is called his 〈non-Latin alphabet〉,