A30242:932
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.
Secondly, It's compared to hay and stubble, for the levity and uncertainty of it. What solidity hath a straw that is blown up and down with every wind? Now the lightness and uncertainty appeareth in three things,
Secondly, It's compared to hay and stubble, for the levity and uncertainty of it. What solidity hath a straw that is blown up and down with every winde? Now the lightnesse and uncertainty appeareth in three things,
1. It cannot abide the touchstone, it cannot endure to be tried. Straw cannot endure the fire. The thief, or he that doth evil, hateth the light, saith our Saviour, John 3.20. Counterfeit and base coin cannot abide the touchstone; whereas the Apostles when they preached, they were willing to have their Doctrines tried by the Scripture; and the Bereans are commended for making such an enquiry, Acts 17.11. The Owls and the Bats cannot endure the day. As ⟨p. 163⟩soon as error is detected, it is confuted, whereas the precious truths of God, they grow more excellent and glorious by the trial of them. The wheat loseth nothing by winnowing; the iron by filing. By all the errors and heresies that ever have been, truth hath gotten the advantage: As the ark was the more lifted up to Heaven by the waters:
1. It cannot abide the touchstone, it cannot endure to be tried. Straw cannot endure the fire. The thief, or he that doth evil, hateth the light, saith our Saviour, John 3.20. Counterfeit and base coin cannot abide the touchstone; whereas the Apostles when they preached, they were willing to have their Doctrines tried by the Scripture; and the Bereans are commended for making such an enquiry,