A30242:695
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, He doth it heartily, seriously: It cometh from his bowels:1 All within him, is called upon to bless God. What is a more formal and ordinary phrase, then to say, I thank God? I bless God? But the gracious doing of it, is like fire in the bowels. Observe Paul Eph. 1. how copious and overflowing he is in blessing of God for his manifold graces to the godly? No fountain doth run •ore sweetly, fully, and purely then he doth. Oh, his heart is an happy spring, ⟨p. 122⟩from whence comes such Rivers of living water! And thus David his Psalms, are the sweet liquor running over, by the boiling, that the fire of his zeal doth make. He seemeth to be a Distillatory over the fire, dropping sweet and precious water. So then, to acknowledge grace, is a duty that possesseth the whole man, if ever his soul be in a transfiguration. If ever his heart be consumed within him, it's in matter of the grace and favour of God.
First, He doth it heartily, seriously: It cometh from his bowels:1 All within him, is called upon to bless God. What is a more formall and ordinary phrase, then to say, I thank God? I bless God? But the gracious doing of it, is like fire in the bowels. Observe Paul Eph. 1. how copious and overflowing he is in blessing of God for his manifold graces to the godly? No fountain doth runne •ore sweetly, fully, and purely then he doth. Oh, his heart is an happy spring, ⟨p. 122⟩from whence comes such Rivers of living water! And thus David his Psalms, are the sweet liquour running over, by the boyling, that the fire of his zeal doth make. He seemeth to be a Distillatory over the fire, droping sweet and precious water. So then, to acknowledge grace, is a duty that possesseth the whole man, if ever his soul be in a transfiguration. If ever his heart be consumed within him, it's in matter of the grace and favour of God.