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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.
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3. The Apostle in the Text, he speaks of two degrees only amongst the godly, the Spiritual, and the Carnal, the men and the babes, even as we speak of the Incipients and Proficients. Now the spiritual man is he that hath attained to an higher degree both of knowledge in the understanding and sanctification, in the heart; of such the Apostle speaketh, Gal. 6.1 This later is necessary. For if a man have never such spiritual abilities, if he abound in the knowledge of all mysteries, can preach, pray, and do all things to the ravishment of the hearer, yet if he be not sanctified in his heart, he is carnal, and not spiritual. These Corinthians are said to abound in all utterance, and they came behind no Church in any gift; yet no Church so carnal, and so full of the works of the flesh as this; here were gross heresies, here were divisions and schisms among them, and several gross practices; so that a spiritual people, is not presently a people of parts, and knowledge, and abilities only, but of grace and raised sanctification also.
3. The Apostle in the Text, he speaks of two degrees onely amongst the godly, the Spiritual, and the Carnal, the men and the babes, even as we speak of the Incipients and Proficients. Now the spiritual man is he that hath attained to an higher degree both of knowledge in the understanding and sanctification, in the heart; of such the Apostle speaketh, Gal. 6.1 This later is necessary. For if a man have never such spiritual abilities, if he abound in the knowledge of all mysteries, can preach, pray, and do all things to the ravishment of the hearer, yet if he be not sanctified in his heart, he is carnal, and not spiritual. These Corinthians are said to abound in all utterance, and they came behind no Church in any gift; yet no Church so carnal, and so full of the works of the flesh as this; here were grosse heresies, here were divisions and schismes among them, and several grosse practices; so that a spiritual people, is not presently a people of parts, and knowledge, and abilities onely, but of grace and raised sanctification also.