A30242:927
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, Though all errors in opinion and religion have no better a name, 1and no better a nature, yet those that build them do not think so. They judge what they build gold and silver; they think their monsters beautiful, and comely. The false Prophets in the Old Testament, they would presumptuously call their dreams and imaginations the word of the Lord; and Zedekiah the false prophet struck Micaiah the true, saying, Which way went the Spirit of the Lord from me to thee, 2 Chron. 18.23. Now the Apostle Peter tells us, That as there were false Prophets, in the Old Testament, so there shall be in the New, who shall bring in damnable heresies, 2 Pet. 2.1. Not that they judge them so, for happily they might speak, as Paul saith, he thought he was bound to do what he did against Christ and his way. And our Saviour speaking of the bitterest enemies the ⟨p. 162⟩Christians should meet with, he saith, They think, they shall do God good service by their persecuting of them, John 16.2. Every erroneous person therefore is not presently convinced in his own conscience of his false way; he may (as the Antichristian party is) be delivered up to believe a lie; To call light darkness, and darkness light: Even as the distempered palate may call sweet things bitter. So then, though errors in Doctrine be stubble and trash, yet they are not thought so by the Authors of them. The Manichees, called Manes, Manicheus, because he did [Greek or Hebrew]; they commonly commend their falsehoods, as the precious, rare, and unheard of truths of Christ.
First, Though all errours in opinion and religion have no better a name, 1and no better a nature, yet those that build them do not think so. They judge what they build gold and silver; they think their monsters beautifull, and comely. The false Prophets in the Old Testament, they would presumptuously call their dreams and imaginations the word of the Lord; and Zedekiah the false prophet struck Micaiah the true, saying, Which way went the Spirit of the Lord from me to thee,