A30242:645
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.
Use 2. To the people. Is it a working with God? then lay aside all prejudice and cavils against it: Neglect it not, thou refusest the work of God upon thy soul. This is the way wherein God will discover his power.
Ʋse 2. To the people. Is it a working with God? then lay aside all prejudice and cavils against it: Neglect it not, thou refusest the work of God upon thy soul. This is the way wherein God will discover his power.
Secondly, Wonder not if the Ministry hath many times wrought such powerful effects; that the blind see, the poor are humbled, the lofty cast down, and mens hearts changed, for God worketh with it.
Secondly, Wonder not if the Ministry hath many times wrought such powerfull effects; that the blind see, the poor are humbled, the lofty cast down, and mens hearts changed, for God worketh with it.
Ye are Gods husbandry, ye are Gods building.
The former part of this Text contained the description of the Office of the Ministers in the Church of God: They were labourers with God; This latter part describeth the nature of the people, and the Church of God, in what suitable relation they stand in, viz. They are Gods husbandry, they are Gods building. Here is a two-fold Metaphor, and the first, that referreth to the comparisons the Apostle had used before, of watering and planting; Now answerable to this is Gods tillage: the latter, of building the Apostle prosecuteth in the following Verses: Both these similitudes tend to the same thing, yet they both have their peculiar signification likewise, and emphasis. The first word [Greek or Hebrew] signifieth both the matter and object, that they are Gods field, ager colendus; as also Gods work about it: we may put both the similitudes together, and Observe