A30242:651
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, The power and goodness of God in making them so. 1A building is not of it self; every body that seeth a house, presently concludes the house did not make it self; so if you see a field well husbanded, ploughed, sowed, and clothed with goodly Corn, we all know, of it self the earth would not do so: but rather its curse is to bring forth briars, and thorns: So when you see a people leaving the sins and superstitious Idolatry of the world, walking according to the rules revealed in Scripture▪ you must necessarily conclude, this men have not of themselves, they cannot have this by flesh and blood. Hence God speaking of the Church of Israel, said, He planted a Vine, Jer. 2.21. even as the pleasant garden ⟨p. 114⟩of Eden was planted at first. Thus the Psalmist speaking not of our natural, but Church-Creation, saith, We are the sheep of his pasture, he hath made us, and not we our selves, Psal. 100 3. So then it is God that hath made us not only creatures, but a people believing in him, and worshipping of him.
First, The power and goodness of God in making them so. 1A building is not of it self; every body that seeth a house, presently concludes the house did not make it self; so if you see a field well husbanded, plowed, sowed, and cloathed with goodly Corn, we all know, of it self the earth would not do so: but rather its curse is to bring forth briars, and thornes: So when you see a people leaving the sinnes and superstitious Idolatry of the world, walking according to the rules revealed in Scripture▪ you must necessarily conclude, this men have not of themselves, they cannot have this by flesh and blood. Hence God speaking of the Church of Israel, said, He planted a Vine, Jer. 2.21. even as the pleasant garden ⟨p. 114⟩