A30242:797
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, Then they may exalt their Office and work, 1when false and malicious slanders and calumnies are raised against them by the ingratitude of the world: When they devise all manner of evil, and lay it to their charge; here they are bound to preserve their good name, and declare the good things they have done, and of what necessary use their Office is. Habent mores suas odours, & colours; odours in famâ, colours conscientiâ. And therefore it's not enough that our consciences be not black or pale through guilt, but that we be the sweet savour of Christ, as Paul speaks it, 2 Corinth. 2.15. Now this cannot be, unless they discover the falseness and weakness of any unjust aspersions. Thus Christ himself, when the Jews talked of stoning him; For which of my good works do you stone me? John 10 32. And so the Ministers of God may plead, Why are you become enemies and adversaries? Is it because we convince of sin? we inform of duty? we labour the eternal salvation of mens souls? In such a case as this, [Greek or Hebrew] is no sin, though Aristotle make the affected vain glorious discourse of a mans self, his fault.
First, Then they may exalt their Office and work, 1when false and malicious slanders and calumnies are raised against them by the ingratitude of the world: When they devise all manner of evil, and lay it to their charge; here they are bound to preserve their good name, and declare the good things they have done, and of what necessary use their Office is. Habent mores suas odores, & colores; odores in famâ, colores conscientiâ. And therefore it's not enough that our consciences be not black or pale through guilt, but that we be the sweet savour of Christ, as Paul speakes it, 2 Corinth. 2.15. Now this cannot be, unlesse they discover the falsenesse and weaknesse of any unjust aspersions. Thus Christ himself, when the Jewes talked of stoning him; For which of my good works do you stone me? John 10 32. And so the Ministers of God may plead, Why are you become enemies and adversaries? Is it because we convince of sinne? we inform of duty? we labour the eternal salvation of mens souls? In such a case as this, is no sinne, though Aristotle make the affected vain glorious discourse of a mans self, his fault.