A26981:1084
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.
Qu. Were they extemporary Prayers, or long Liturgies and forms? Answ. If the former, the Pharisees had more of the gift of utterance than Christs Disciples then. But no doubt but they were long Liturgies or Forms; for else they were not suitable to the times or the character of the Pharisees, who were Church-rulers, and all for tradition, and ceremony and outside: And yet Christ blameth not the Forms, or the length, but their hypocrisy, and oppressing cruelty. Only good is fit to cover evil.
Qu. Were they extemporary Prayers, or long Liturgies and forms? Answ. If the former, the Pharisees had more of the gift of utterance than Christs Disciples then. But no doubt but they were long Liturgies or Forms; for else they were not suitable to the times or the character of the Pharisees, who were Church-rulers, and all for tradition, and ceremony and outside: And yet Christ blameth not the Forms, or the length, but their hypocrisie, and oppressing cruelty. Only good is fit to cover evil.
15. Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than your selves.
15. Wo to you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than your selves.
15. Ye are very diligent to convert men to your Religion, and make them more guilty and more fierce against Christians than your selves.