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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.
They are with much care, fear and trembling, to consider, how they build upon the Scriptures. And if Ministers are thus to take heed; then likewise all others, who read and search the Scriptures, are to take heed of presumptuous boldness, and irreverent ignorance in the perverting of it. The Scriptures are called [Greek or Hebrew], the Testament, or Will of Christ. Now as it's a dangerous thing,1 even by the Laws of a Land, to corrupt, forge or falsify a mans will: No less capital is it to the soul of a man, any ways to pervert the Doctrine of the Word of God, 2 Pet. 3.16. They that are unlearned wrest the Scriptures unto their own destruction. See here, a man may damn his soul by wresting and tormenting the Scripture, as it were upon a rack, to a contrary sense, then what it intended. Oecumenius on the place saith, It's as great a sin to pervert the writings of the Apostles, as it was to cut and mangle, or murder their bodies.
They are with much care, fear and trembling, to consider, how they build upon the Scriptures. And if Ministers are thus to take heed; then likewise all others, who reade and search the Scriptures, are to take heed of presumptuous boldnesse, and irreverent ignorance in the perverting of it. The Scriptures are called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the Testament, or Will of Christ. Now as it's a dangerous thing,1 even by the Laws of a Land, to corrupt, forge or falsifie a mans will: No lesse capital is it to the soul of a man, any wayes to pervert the Doctrine of the Word of God, 2 Pet. 3.16. They that are unlearned wrest the Scriptures unto their own destruction. See here, a man may damn his soul by wresting and tormenting the Scripture, as it were upon a rack, to a contrary sense, then what it intended. Oecumenius on the place saith, It's as great a sinne to pervert the writings of the Apostles, as it was to cut and mangle, or murder their bodies.