A26892:8506
A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
§. 21. The passive Verb [Greek or Hebrew], to be scandalized, is used often. As Matth. 11. 6. Blessed is 1he that is not scandalized (translated [offended] in me:) that is, who is not distasted with my person and doctrine through carnal prejudices: and so kept in unbelief: There were many things in the person, life and doctrine of Christ, which were unsuitable to carnal reason and expectation: These men thought to be hard and strange, and could not digest them, and so were hindered by them from believing: And this was being [offended in Christ]. So in Matth. 13. 57. & Mar. 6. 3. They were offended in or at him: that is, took a dislike or distaste to him for his words. And Matth. 13. 21.2 When persecution ariseth, by and by they are offended: that is, they stumble and fall away: And3 Matth. 15. 12. The Pharisees were offended (or scandalized) that is, so offended as to be more in dislike of Christ. And Matth. 24. 10. Then shall many be offended, or scandalized, that is, shall draw back and fall away from Christ. And Mat. 26. 31, 33. Mar. 14. 27, 29. [All ye shall be offended because of me, &c. Though all men shall be offended (or scandalized) yet will I never be scandalized] that is, brought to doubt of Christ, or to forsake him or deny him, or be hindered from owning their relation to him. So John 16. 1. These things have I spoken that ye should not be offended; that is, that when the time cometh, the unexpected trouble may not so surprise you, as to turn you from the faith, or stagger you in your obedience or hope.