A30242:912
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.
Fifthly, They are compared to gold, Because of the purity and sincerity in them. The truths of God, they have an holy simplicity and sincerity, and therefore false Teachers are said [Greek or Hebrew], 2 Cor. 2. to corrupt the pure word of God, as hucksters do their wine. David compareth Gods word to pure gold, even seven times refined, Psal. 19 And hereby it becomes a very dangerous sin, for any to counterfeit it, or corrupt it. If among men their Laws make it a capital crime to counterfeit, or clip their coin, certainly God will account it no less heinous a sin to do so with his truths. As it's gold for sincerity; so it's compared to the water of life, for its purity. And as Isaac complained of the Philistines as the greatest injury that could be to stop up his wells with earth; and it's a matter of death to poison a fountain or spring where men use to drink; so destructive and heinous a sin it must be, to infect the pure streams of the Sanctuary, that people should thereby suck down their own poison.
Fifthly, They are compared to gold, Because of the purity and sincerity in them. The truths of God, they have an holy simplicity and sincerity, and therefore false Teachers are said 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 2 Cor. 2. to corrupt the pure word of God, as hucksters do their wine. David compareth Gods word to pure gold, even seven times refined, Psal. 19 And hereby it becomes a very dangerous sinne, for any to counterfeit it, or corrupt it. If among men their Laws make it a capital crime to counterfeit, or clip their coin, certainly God will account it no lesse hainous a sinne to do so with his truths. As it's gold for sincerity; so it's compared to the water of life, for its purity. And as Isaac complained of the Philistims as the greatest injury that could be to stop up his wels with earth; and it's a matter of death to poison a fountain or spring where men use to drink; so destructive and hainous a sinne it must be, to infect the pure streams of the Sanctuary, that people should thereby suck down their own poison.