A30242:63
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.
But the second and more common division of their hearers, were into the Catechumeni, such who were to be instructed and taught the principles of Religion. For they admitted no grown person into Church-communion, that were not competently taught the foundations of Religion. Oh how many are amongst us, though aged and married persons, that need to be placed in this form!
But the second and more common division of their hearers, were into the Catechumeni, such who were to be instructed and taught the principles of Religion. For they admitted no grown person into Church-communion, that were not competently taught the foundations of Religion. Oh how many are amongst us, though aged and married persons, that need to be placed in this forme!
2. Penitents, the Penitents, of whom there were several degrees; and such were those, who being Christians in profession, did yet fall into gross and scandalous sins, such were kept from the Sacrament. They had a distinct place in the Church, as not worthy the communion of the rest. Oh Beloved, in the Apostles ⟨p. 7⟩times, in the primitive times, when there was spiritual zeal for the glory of God, a profane impenitent man was no more owned for one of theirs, than we would own a toad in our dishes, or a swine in our garden. No, not with such an one not to eat, Withdraw from such a man. Cast him out, saith the Apostle; and thus for many hundred years after Christ. But (alas) we are like so many Hospitals full of diseased persons.
2. Poenitentes, the Penitents, of whom there were several degrees; and such were those, who being Christians in profession, did yet fall into grosse and scandalous sinnes, such were kept from the Sacrament. They had a distinct place in the Church, as not worthy the communion of the rest. Oh Beloved, in the Apostles ⟨p. 7⟩times, in the primitive times, when there was spiritual zeal for the glory of God, a prophane impenitent man was no more owned for one of theirs, than we would own a toad in our dishes, or a swine in our garden. No, not with such an one not to eat, Withdraw from such a man. Cast him out, saith the Apostle; and thus for many hundred years after Christ. But (alas) we are like so many Hospitals full of diseased persons.