A26981:1077
A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainness and…A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainess and…
A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainness and brevity fitted to the use of religious families, in their daily reading of the Scriptures : and of the younger and poorer sort of scholars and ministers, who want fuller helps : with an advertisement of difficulties in the Revelations / by Richard Baxter.A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainess and brevity fitted to the use of religious families, in their daily reading of the Scriptures : and of the younger and poorer sort of scholars and ministers, who want fuller helps : with an advertisement of difficulties in the Revelations / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for B. Simmons, 1685
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.
10. And affect not the title of Masters in Religion; for you are all Scholars to our Master Christ.
11, 12. But he that is greatest among you ⟨image 32⟩shall be your servant: and whoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
11, 12. Church greatness and dignity consisteth in being most greatly serviceable: But if you affect domination and preferment, you shall be abased: and he that humbleth himself shall be accounted the chief by God, and used accordingly.
13. But woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in your selves, not suffer them that are entering to go in.
13. But wo to you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in your selves, not suffer them that are entring to go in.