A30242:667
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 of Instruction: Learn understanding by this familiar similitude, You are Gods Husbandry. The Spirit of God from the vocation and calling of many of you, useth a comparison, that so by earthly things, you may come to heavenly. What you would have your fields be to you after all your pain and cost, the same be you to God. Barrenness and unfruitfulness, how doth it discourage you? You care not for that Ground, which never will yield a crop after all cost upon it; How can God endure thee? Thy soul is Gods field. Oh, what fruit, what reformation shouldst thou show forth? Thus not only the Sabbath day, but every day may be a Sabbath day: Every field thou goest into; Every goodly crop thou seest on the ground, it may teach and preach unto thee. As our Saviour said, If I have spoken to you earthly things, and you understand them not, how then ⟨p. 117⟩heavenly? Joh. 3. If heavenly things be represented to you, under the comp• rison of earthly things, and you not receive them, how then if spoken in their own nature? Take heed then, lest thou who art, as yet, Gods field, by his love and care on thee, do not by his just wrath, make thee a field of blood; yea, the blood of thy own soul.
Ʋse of Instruction: Learn understanding by this familiar similitude, You are Gods Husbandry. The Spirit of God from the vocation and calling of many of you, useth a comparison, that so by earthly things, you may come to heavenly. What you would have your fields be to you after all your pain and cost, the same be you to God. Barrenness and unfruitfulness, how doth it discourage you? You care not for that Ground, which never will yield a crop after all cost upon it; How can God indure thee? Thy soul is Gods field. Oh, what fruit, what reformation shouldst thou shew forth? Thus not only the Sabbath day, but every day may be a Sabbath day: Every field thou goest into; Every goodly crop thou seest on the ground, it may teach and preach unto thee. As our Saviour said, If I have spoken to you earthly things, and you understand them not, how then ⟨p. 117⟩heavenly? Joh. 3. If heavenly things be represented to you, under the comp• rison of earthly things, and you not receive them, how then if spoken in their own nature? Take heed then, lest thou who art, as yet, Gods field, by his love and care on thee, do not by his just wrath, make thee a field of blood; yea, the blood of thy own soul.