A30242:879
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.
To answer this. When we say, Christ is to be laid as the only foundation,1 that is exclusive of all humane foundations, it doth not exclude God the Father, or God the holy Ghost, but includes them rather. So then, we are not to preach Jesus Christ, as the foundation of all our comfort, peace and salvation, as that God the Father, and the holy Ghost are to be shut out of this. No, they had all their appropriated working in this great Redemption of mankind. And therefore as in those places, where God the Father is said to be the only God, and one God, that is not exclusive of the other persons, but of made and feigned gods, of Idols made gods by men: So it's here, Christ Jesus is preached as the foundation, yet God the Father, and the holy Ghost, have their peculiar workings also, though only the second Person is the Mediator.
To answer this. When we say, Christ is to be laid as the only foundation,1 that is exclusive of all humane foundations, it doth not exclude God the Father, or God the holy Ghost, but inclu•es them rather. So then, we are not to preach Jesus Christ, as the foundation of all our comfort, peace and salvation, as that God the Father, and the holy Ghost are to be shut out of this. No, they had all their appropriated working in this great Redemption of mankind. And therefore as in those places, where God the Father is said to be the only God, and one God, that is not exclusive of the other persons, but of made and feigned gods, of Idols made gods by men: So it's here, Christ Jesus is preached as the foundation, yet God the Father, and the holy Ghost, have their peculiar workings also, though only the second Person is the Mediator.
- 1Answ.
And therefore secondly, Christ Jesus cannot be preached as the foundation, unless the Doctrine of God the Father, and the holy Ghost be also made known. Hence are those expressions, He that knoweth the Son, knoweth the Father also. And, He that denieth the Son, denieth the Father; And he that honoureth the Son, honoureth the Father,