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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
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2. Their craft is seen, In mingling some truths with their error, that while we take one, we may swallow down the other; and this is worse than palpable heresy in some sense; Pejus est veneno oceidere quam gladio; they mingle their wine with water. Thus some false Apostles, they preached Christ as well as the works of the Law; but this craft God will manifest, when •e shall separate the precious from the vile, and that is the reason (say some) why Christ would not own the confession that the Devil made, That he was the Son of God, lest speaking some truth, he should also vent his lies by owning him.
2. Their craft is seen, In mingling some truths with their errour, that while we take one, we may swallow down the other; and this is worse than palpable heresie in some sense; Pejus est veneno oceidere quam gladio; they mingle their wine with water. Thus some false Apostles, they preached Christ as well as the works of the Law; but this craft God will manifest, when •e shall separate the precious from the vile, and that is the reason (say some) why Christ would not own the confession that the Devil made, That he was the Sonne of God, lest speaking some truth, he should also vent his lies by owning him.
3. This craft is seen, Either in sweet and winning words, full of love and kindness; or else in pretence to deep and sublime mysteries. Some men are most taken with moral and popular discourses; therefore Paul saith, they have [Greek or Hebrew], Rom. 16.18. good sweet honey words. Others a•e more taken with subtle and philosophical Arguments; therefore the Apostle bids them, Beware of philosophy, Col. 2.8. and saith, it's knowledge falsely so called. Philosophi fuerunt Patriarchae haereticorum. Yea these Nani, that hay and stubble we find in some of the Greek Fathers, about Free-will and Grace, is attributed to their Platonical Philosophy, which was soaked too much in them, and so continued, though Christians; as Aristotle's Philosophy infected the fountain in the Schoolmens time.