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A treatise of self-judging, in order to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper.…
A treatise of self-judging, in order to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper. Together with a sermon of the general day of judgement. / By Anthony Burgess pastor of Sutton-Coldfield in Warwickshire.A treatise of self-judging, in order to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper. Together with a sermon of the generall day of judgement. / By Anthony Burgesse pastor of Sutton-Coldfield in Warwickshire.
London: printed by J.H. for T. Underhill, 1658
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First, the duty supposed, with the object of it, if we would judge our selves, what the word [Greek or Hebrew], doth imply, will appear in the doctrine Grotius thinketh this place may not unfitly be expounded of their public Church-censures, as if the Apostles meaning were, if you had godly discipline, & this were faithfully put in order, this would prevent Gods judgments; for he thinketh by the several factions that were, the discipline of the Church lay prostrate; but I will go in the most general interpretation of it, and so the words may be considered, either in the ⟨p. 23⟩Thesi, as a Theological Aphorism, That self-judging, will prevent Gods judging of us in all cases; or else in Hypothesi, in the particular, as it doth relate to the Sacrament. Hence Erasmus renders it in the past sense, If we had judged our selves, we had not been judged of the Lord. I shall take in both these considerations.
First, the duty supposed, with the object of it, if we would judge our selves, what the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, doth imply, will appear in the doctrine Grotius thinketh this place may not unfitly be expoūded of their publick Church-censures, as if the Apostles meaning were, if you had godly discipline, & this were faithfully put in order, this would prevent Gods judgments; for he thinketh by the severall factions that were, the discipline of the Church lay prostrate; but I will go in the most generall interpretation of it, and so the words may be considered, either in the ⟨p. 23⟩Thesi, as a Theologicall Aphorisme, That self-judging, will prevent Gods judging of us in all cases; or else in Hypothesi, in the particular, as it doth relate to the Sacrament. Hence Erasmus renders it in the past sence, If we had judged our selves, we had not been judged of the Lord. I shall take in both these considerations.
Secondly, There is the benefit proposed, or discovered upon our self-judging, we should not be judged. The Apostle speaketh here of believers as well as wicked men, yea chiefly of believers, because he addeth, vers. 32.