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A30242	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 ...	Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1659 (1659)	Wing B5656; Wing B5648_CANCELLED; ESTC R3908	509,568	411

of the Father of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost Mat. 28.19 To be baptized into the name of one argueth that one to be a Person And how absurd would it be to say the Father and the Sonne are Persons but the holy Ghost is an attribute or operation So There are three that dear witnesse in Heaven the Father the Sonne and the Spirit 1 John 5.7 Three he doth not say three things but three viz. Persons as appeareth by the personal operations These bare witnesse in Heaven Some reade The Spirit of God descended in the shape of a Dove which plainly denoteth a thing subsisting not an attribute We are said To sin against him which must needs imply a person Thou hast lied to God Act 5.4 That which is here said to be God is called the holy Ghost vers 3. Thou hast lied to the holy Ghost And the sinne against the holy Ghost shall never be forgiven Matth. 12.31 Lastly There is attributed understanding and will to him Vnderstanding the Spirit of God searcheth the deep things of God and the things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of God 1 Cor. 2.11 And Will 1 Cor. 14. where he reckoneth up several operations Even as the same Spirit giveth to whom he pleaseth So that you see the Texts are so clear that were not men sadly forsaken by God they could not deny these things In the second place Let us prove that it 's not a chief spirit among Angels but in deed and in truth of the same Nature with God Now some choice Arguments to prove this may be reduced into these heads First The Name of God is directly and properly not metaphorically attributed to him Thus God is said to speak by the holy Prophets which have been ever since the world begun And if you ask What Person it is in the God-head 2 Pet. 1.21 The Prophets spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost So that the holy Ghost was that God who enlightened and moved all the Prophets that were from the beginning of the world Thus Acts 5.4 Why hath Satan filled thy heart thou hast not lied to man but to God Ananias he thought he had only to do with men but mark the opposition not man but God especially 1 Cor. 12.3 4. There are diversities of gifts but the same spirit the same Lord the same God Spirit Lord and God So that by what Texts we can prove God the Father to be God the same we can prove the holy Ghost to be God Secondly The holy Ghost hath those works attributed to him which do onely belong unto a God Such as God only can do as Creation Sanctification and Redemption and miraculous operations These things do demonstrate and prove a God Creation Psal 33 6. By the word of the Lord the Heavens were made and by the Spirit or breath of his mouth th●y were created Job 33.4 The Spirit of God made me Thus in the Creation at first The Spir●t moved on the waters as the Hen on the eggs giving vivifical influence For Redemption the holy Ghost concurreth to that in preparing and fitting the body of Christ and sanctifying it to be an oblation Hence Christ is said To be conceived of the holy Ghost which could not be an Angel for then an Angel would have been greater than Christ And secondly In the application of the Benefus of the Redemption to the godly The holy Ghost both applieth them and assureth thereof The Spirit of God that heareth witnesse with our spirit Rom. 8.16 And we are sealed by the holy Spirit of God Ephes 4.30 Thirdly In the works of miraculous operations So 1 Cor. 12. all those extraordinary and miraculous gifts are attributed to the holy Ghost Hence he is called The finger of God Luke 11.12 by which Christ is said to cast out Devils And on the Feast of Pentecost He descended in a mighty rushing wind and cloven tongues of fire filling all the Apostles with miraculous gifts Acts 2.3 4. Lastly The works of Sanctification Faith Repentance and all other graces are wrought by him Yea he is called The holy Spirit because that is his peculiar Office to work holinesse and to sanctifie men by the Ministry Now Divines say It is a farre greater work and argueth more power to sanctifie the natures of men then to make a new world yet this is constantly applied to the holy Ghost though not so as to exclude the other Persons in their order Hence likewise all the means of Sanctification viz. the Ministry and the gifts thereof are also given to the same Spirit Acts 25. Over which the holy Ghost hath made you overseers Thirdly The attributes and properties of a God as well as the works of a God are also in Scripture given to the holy Ghost omnipresence filling the whole world Whither shall I go from thy Spirit None can flie from it Psal 139.7 His Omniscience in that he searcheth the deep things of God 1 Cor. 2.11 His Omnipotency as you heard His Eternity called the Eternal Spirit Heb. 9 14. Though some understand that of Christs Divine Nature and being before the world in that he made it Unity with the other Persons These three are one So that having the properties of God he must needs be God Lastly The religious worship that is given to the Holy Ghost doth not onely argue he is a Person but a Divine Person equal with God And 1. We have the Angels giving worship unto him whereas John when he would have worshipped the Angel he is forbidden Worship thou God Revel 19.10 So that religious worship is only to be given to God And thus the Angels in that glorious vision sang Holy holy holy unto God Now it 's worth your observing that this vision is attributed both to the Father to the Sonne and to the holy Ghost To the Father that is without doubt Isa 6. for there he is described as a glorious Judge in all Majesty To the Son John 12.41 This spake Esaias when he saw his glory and spake of him viz. of Christ as the Evangelist applieth it Lastly To the holy Ghost Act 28.25 That men also are to give religious worship to the holy Ghost appeareth in their baptismal profession Being baptized into the Name of the holy Ghost As also by that form of prayer and blessing The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ the love of God and communion of the holy Ghost sometimes ●sed in the Epistles Thus you see the Scripture clearly determining this matter of faith And if we cannot comprehend how there should be one God and three Persons eve●y one of them God and yet but one God you must remember That faith is the captivating of the understanding unto a meer t●stimony It 's not science but faith that Christians professe In humane things Argumentum facit fidem in divine things Fides facit argumentum Neither is it any wonder that we cannot in the creatures find an exact comparison to

them therefore he concludes The rest will I set in order when I come 1 Cor. 11. ult So that herein also is a great work the labouring to instruct and bring people to a full conformity to all that heavenly order and godly course of life which Christ hath commanded We see men have quickly submitted to the doctrine of Christ who yet do not in their lives to the Laws of Christ men may have a sound faith but a rotten and unsound conversation Oh this is the blemish and reproach of Christianity to this very day Herein is great work still for the Ministerial employment Though we are planted gardens yet they are so full of noisome weeds and poisonous herbs that there must be daily inspection Hath God planted thee and watered thee for this only to become a weed or a bramble The work of the Ministery is necessary as long as there is one bitter root growing up amongst us Esau a prophane man is called a bitter root Heb. 12.15 And so indeed every wicked man is a bitter root bitter in himself he is in the state of gall and wormwood he is not a Naomi but a Marah though he doth not feel it yet his soul is full of all misery and then he is bitter to others both actively and passively actively in grieving and troubling the soules of those that are godly and passively in being grieved at the godly their doings their actions make heavy the hearts of the godly as it was in Lot by the Sodomites Now then what care is here required that there may be nothing in our Assemblies that may offend the pure eies of Gods glory Fourthly This watering lieth in the stirring up of men to fruitfullness in their places and relations The end of watering is to make fruitfull and thus all the spiritual plants in Gods garden though they have deep root yet need this outward watering Barrenness is a great sinne even amongst the godly they may all fear God hath a controversie with them Oh the decayes and consumptions that are upon Christians graces Now how may these withered plants be restored to health and strength again but by the daily watering of the Ministery these spiritual clouds are to drop fatness upon them the barren heart under these waterings is made like the tree planted by the rivers side Here are fountaines to refresh the thirsty soul How distastfull unto God unfruitfullness and unprofitableness is appeareth partly by those terrible curses Never fruit grow on thee more and at another time Cut it down why cumbers it the ground And partly by that enraged anger against that servant who hid his talent in a napkin Mat. 25. Consider then it 's not enough to receive the Truths of God it is not enough to be once planted by him but there must be fruit and still more fruit brought forth by thee Therefore God as he hath appointed watering so he hath an hook also to cut out all the weeds to prune off all the branches and these are afflictions and chastisements so great a matter is it to have people fruitfull and profitable in their places to make the best they can for God and the advancing of his Kingdome At the day of Judgement it is not commission of sinnes but omission of duties for which they hear that dreadfull sentence of departure into everlasting torments In these things mainly doth consist this duty of watering Let us consider Why there is such daily need of those quickening means of grace And First It doth arise from the heart which is an unnatural soil to grace and supernatural things The temporal curse to the ground to bring forth nothing but thornes and thistles is likewise spiritually true in us of it self there come nothing but evil thoughts corrupt affections distempered lusts it 's like an hell from whence are unquenchable sparkes of lusts Were it not therefore for this daily watering and spiritual inspection the soul would immediately degenerate into a barren heath Oh therefore call often for these waterpots thy graces will quickly wither thy heart is no kindly soil As some grounds will bring cockle instead of wheat such is thy heart if not daily dropt upon unless it be alwayes fenced it will bear no crop Secondly The temptations that are so frequent and many do likewise wonderfully destroy and wither all if this constant watering be not As there are Pauls to plant and Apolloes to water so there are also the Devils to plant and his instruments to water men in wickedness Seeing therefore thou art in a daily expence of thy oil thy lamp will quickly go out if there be not daily supply you had therefore need of quickening need of thriving when there be so many obstructions so many hinderances all is little enough to put thee forward the Devil the world thy own heart draweth thee back therefore thou needest daily drawing forward Thirdly There needs watering because of that indispensable duty to grow to grow both in light and heat to grow in head and heart grow in the knowledge of God and in grace 2 Pet. 3.18 It being then a great sinne to stand at a stay to be dwarfes alwayes to be Babes alwayes God having appointed this as the way to grow it behooveth thee the more diligently to wait on this watering Vse of Exhortation To try whether you grow up into more knowledge and grace or no Are ye more acquainted in the wayes of Religion and Piety Know it 's your duty not only to be planted but to grow up exceedingly Oh it 's to be feared that many are dead at the very root at the very heart all the watering the preaching the exhorting makes them not stirre forward If a man water a plant dead at the root or a dead stump of the tree though he do it a thousand times over yet no leaves or fruit will ever grow on it so when you see a people after much preaching many exhortations to be as ignorant as prophane as ever Oh say these are dead at the very root something would sprout forth if there were life Vse of Admonition To the children of God to prize the Ministery and means of grace Be you as the thirsty land and the Ordinances like streames of water fruitfulness and flourishing in godliness is expressed for this end We preach and you are to hear Let the things that are dying be strengthened Let thy decaying love be revived Oh how will formality and deadness trouble thee at thy last hour the barrenness of thy life will be terrible to thee But God gave the encrease The Apostle as you heard doth excellently joyn these two things togeher which the world is so apt to sever The Ministry and Gods efficacy therby We may not rest upon the Ministery so as not to depend on Gods efficacy we may not expect Gods efficacy but in the Ministery Here may be a sweet subordination mans corruption makes the opposition so that this Text as it

's no Judge no foundation because our natural Reason is corrupt and therefore the understanding must be captivated Many things are above our understanding though not contrary to Reason to which we must yeeld the obedience of faith Vse of Admonition In matters of faith lay this foundation in times of disputes of varieties of opinions such as these are be as a people that have had a good and sure foundation laid among you Runne not on one side into a Popish bruitish and blind obedience of faith Nor on the other side be not carried away as empty straws with every wind of Doctrine Oh it 's a blessed thing to have the full assurance and perswasion of truths necessary to salvation not to have Reubens curse to be unstable like water Especially you that are ignorant and earthy who never make any matter about the principles of Religion do you rouse up your selves Why hath God given you reason and understanding Why are those many Texts To search the Scripture To prove all things if you sit down and regard not these things As a wise master builder I have laid the foundation It hath been observed That it 's a great part of the wisdom and heavenly skill of the Ministers of the Gospel to lay a right and good foundation in the hearts of the Hearers What principles are in any Art or Science the same is a foundation in matters of Religion Now if the principles be false all the Conclusions likewise are false so it is in matters of Religion If we lay rotten and unsound foundations all the building will prove no better You have heard of a fourfold foundation upon which this spiritual building is fixed A foundation of Faith or Doctrine to be Believed and that is The written Word of God only This hath been dispatched The next in order is no lesse necessary and that is The foundation of Gods Worship For as their are heresies and false doctrines which over throw the sound Faith so there is idolatry and superstition which destroyes the true worship of God We shall at this time therefore shew you how necessary it is for the Ministers of the Gospel to lay a sure and right foundation about the worship of God And 1. We shall shew the necessity 2. What is the foundation and the Reasons of it It 's necessary to lay good Principles here First Because there is no sinne doth ordinarily more provoke God then the corrupting of his worship The glorious eyes of God have not sparkled more with vengeance against any persons then those that have defiled themselves in sinfull worship Now three waies God may be provoked about his worship 1. When we adore and worship a false god instead of him Thus all the Heathens that worshipped the Sun or the Starres and other creatures they were guilty of gross idolatry So the Jews when they worshipped Baal-Berith Baal-Phegor and Dagon and Ashtaroth they did point blanck thwart the first Commandement Thou shalt have no other gods before me 2. Gods worship is corrupted when we do indeed worship the true God but not by such means and wayes of worship as he hath appointed but in such a manner as we in our immaginations think best This God often doth caution against that they should not go after the the imaginations of their own heart Thus they set up groves and high places Thus Jeroboam made a golden calf They intended the solemn worship of the true God but only they forsook the true manner of worship he had commanded 3. Then is Gods worship corrupted when though we worship the true God after the true manner yet we adde something to what is commanded We rest not in his simple institution but as Eve added to the Commandement of God so do these Thus the Pharisees they retained the substantial worship of God but then they added a thousand of superstitious observations more to it Now the corrupting of Gods worship any of these waies is a grievous sinne for though the first be a greater sinne then the second and the second then the third yet all of them are such as are immediately committed against God and for which the Prophets do chiefly pronounce those Judgments threatned by them For this sinne Jerusalem was brought low and the Temple had no more a stone left upon a stone The Jews to this day are so sensible of it that of all sins they take heed of this idolatry Secondly It 's necessary to lay a good foundation in this Because this sin doth either immediately break the spiritual Vnion between the Church and God or else much dispose thereunto The Prophet Ezekiel and the ●est do frequently delight to express the sinne of idolatry by adultery and going a whoring after our imaginations And when the Apostle was carefull to lay a good foundation here among the Corinthians in this matter of worship see what he saith His care was to present them a pure Virgin to Christ 2 Cor. 11.1 2. He was afraid they should be corrupted from the simplicity of the Gospel So then Idolatry and Superstition they are Adulteries and Fornications Now as Adultery doth dissolve the marriage bond and may justly provoke the Husband to be no more an Husband so it is in matter of worship It 's true all superstitious worship doth not presently rise to such an height Many sound Churches have retained some superstitious worship yet as wanton Dalliances and meretricious behaviour in a Wise though they do not break the conjugall knot yet dispose thereunto and raise much jealousie and anger in the Husband so it doth in matters of Gods worship Oh then how carefull should people be to see they go upon right grounds in the worship of God Thirdly We had need be carefull because God is so farre from accepting of that worship which he hath not commanded that he accounts it as done to Devils and not to him Though those that worship so thought they honoured God and had a good intention yet God judgeth it as done to Devils not to him So was Jeroboams worship he did not forsake the true God he set up that worship only out of politique designes and certainly the people that went in the ignorance of their spirit little thought to give worship to the Devils thereby yet saith the Text Jeroboam set up this worship to the Devils 2 Chron. 11.6 So these very Corinthians 1 Cor. 10.21 Who would go to the heathen Corinthians Feasts and communicate with them in that worship though they thought they might lawfully do it and it was an act of charity and good society yet the Apostle saith They did drink of the cup of Devils Oh then how shouldst thou be like Ezekiels living creature full of eyes behind and before of heavenly wisdom lest thou worship Devils instead of God Fourthly There is a necessity of laying a good foundation Because our hearts do in nothing more presumptuously work then in the

worship of God There is a secret delight and pleasure men have to make a worship of their own as Children have to make Babies The Scripture fore seeth this and therefore doth so often bid men take heed and they must not follow their own hearts and they must not go in the way they shall choose and they must not do what seemeth good in their own eyes These strict Prohibitions do suppose an itching inclination in men to make a worship of their own and the several ages of the Church have given sad experiences of this sinne The Church which had at first a simple plain and spiritual worship of God became to abound more in external Ceremonies then the Jews as Austin in his time complained If then it be so dangerous to erre about the worship of God What is that sure and stedfast Foundation which both Ministers and people must build upon And that is Only the Command and Divine Institution of God himself I do not speak of natural and necessary circumstances as time and place but whatsoever is the essence or part of the worship of God or the meanes thereof that must have a positive Command and a divine Institution The second Commandement which forbids all kinds or parts or meanes of worship which any man shall make to himself doth thereby command that only which God hath appointed So that as all that money is to be rejected as not currant which hath not the legall superscription on it so also all that worship is to be refused of which you cannot say This the Lord requireth This the Lord hath Commanded Austin doth to this purpose apply a sentence of Socrates God saith he is to be worshiped only in that manner as he himself willeth and appointeth Oh the purity of Ordinances that we should have enjoyed And how beautifull would the Tabernacle of the Lord have been if this Foundation had been alwaies laid Now that no other foundation may be laid but a Divine Command and Gods Institution will appear by several Reasons First There is express Scripture to keep close to Gods Commandement Deut. 31 32. Thou shalt not adde thereto nor diminish from it is Gods Commandement This Command is four times repeated in the Scripture by which it appeareth that no men under any pretence of stirring up devotion or decency may adde any thing unto his Command or de●ract from it as the publique Coin of a Land my not be clipt but it 's a Capital crime to do so and equivalent to this is that Exhortation Not to turn to the right hand or to the left Deut. 17.11 alibi In the Hebrew they are Verbes Not to dextrate it or sinistrate it as we may say The left hand is when men out of prophaneness and atheism or irreverence neglect the due worship God hath appointed The right hand is when men out of pretended zeal and good intentions set up that which God hath not commanded We are not then in our worship to offer a Sacrifice without eyes which then we do when we have not Gods Word a light to direct us We are not to be l●ke Sheep that follow those that go before Non quà cundum est sed quâ itur as Seneca said Hence those Pharisees that were so diligent and officious in their invented worship our Saviour in two or three words throweth it all down Who hath required these things at your hands And In vain do they worship me Mark 11.7 See there is no worship no service of God but thou must be able to answer this Question Who hath required it Who hath commanded it Otherwise it 's a vain worship In vain do they worship me And of all van●ties this is the saddest when thy Religion and Worship will be found an empty vain thing It hath not advantaged thy soul There is no reward laid up for it Secondly Therefore must Gods Institution be a foundation Because when we have to do with God whatsoever is not of Faith is sinne Rom. 14.23 There was a great dispute in the Church about eating and not eating about observing daies and not observing some placed worship in that which others did not Now among other things what golden Rules doth the Apostle lay down and this chiefly Whatsoever is not of Faith is sinne Whatsoever is not of perswasion that it 's lawfull and acceptable to God if I do it it is a sinne And now How can any man be perswaded that is acceptable to God which is not commanded by him which is not his will Had any man in the Old Testament brought a dog or any other unclean be●st to be sacrificed had not this been a great dishonour to God The head in every sacrifice was to be thrown away to shew say some that mans own invention is not to be attended unto in the worship of God Thirdly Gods Institution and Command must be the foundation otherwise all our worship would come from ignorance and it would be endless From ignorance for the Word of God that only is compared unto light so that every one walketh in darkness that is not thus directed Therefore Joh. 4. that woman of Samaria who pleaded so carnaly for her false worship Our fathers they worshiped here and art thou greater then our fathers Our Saviour tels her They worshiped they did not know what It was a worship they had no Command no Institution for and so they did they knew not what As it would come from ignorance so it would be an endless worship for if we have not Gods Institution then every man may adde what he pleaseth As we see in Popery what a multitude of Ceremonies are introduced which they make worship of God And by what reason they do these they may bring in ten thousand more And it cannot be otherwise if once you take away this sure foundation Fourthly To the true and right worship of God there is a gracious Promise of presence acceptance and blessing I said not to Jacob seek my face in vain Isa 45.19 Thus take up all the sorts of worship Prayer and ministration of Sacraments Preaching of the Word these things if done in Gods order return full of precious mercies to those that are imployed therein Now if we are not conformable to this Command we may never look for any Promise for these two are alwaies joyned together As in the old Testament God promised to answer by Vrim and Thummim suppose the High-Priest had taken two other stones would the Lord have answered him No it was not according to his institution What a great breach did God make upon Vzzah because God was not sought in his due order as David said 1 Chron. 15.9 So then as no man or company of men can make a new Article of Faith or can institute a Sacrament because they cannot give the grace signified so it 's in matter of worship they cannot appoint new worship But you may say Why should it be such a sinne