A26981:1189
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.
48.49. But if any Assume the Sacred Ministry, and shall say in his heart, It is long since Christ promised to come; and now his coming is either uncertain, or will not be in hassle; and thereupon shall indulge •his fleshly Lusts, and shall turn a malignant abuser of his fellow Servants, and Persecute, Silence, and Oppress them, and give himself up to the pleasure of his Appetite, in Feasting, and Drunkenness.
48.49. But if any Assume the Sacred Ministry, and shall say in his heart, It is long since Christ promised to come; and now his coming is either uncertain, or will not be in hasle; and thereupon shall indulge •his fleshly Lusts, and shall turn a malignant abuser of his fellow Servants, and Persecute, Silence, and Oppress them, and give himself up to the pleasure of his Appetite, in Feasting, and Drunkenness.
50. The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not ware of. 51. And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites, there shall be •eeping and gnashing of teeth.
50. The Lord of that Servant will surprise him in his Sin and Security, when he least suspecteth it; and will execute that Vengeance on him, which is due to such as aggravate their wickedness, by Hypocrisy; and make him feel that as it is odious, so it is dreadful to profane Holy things, and to fight against holiness in the Name of Christ, and at once, to be a Minister, a Worldling, a Sensualist, and a Persecutor.
50. The Lord of that Servant will surprise him in his Sin and Security, when he least suspecteth it; and will execute that Vengeance on him, which is due to such as aggravate their wickedness, by Hypocrisie; and make him feel that as it is odious, so it is dreadful to prophane Holy things, and to fight against holiness in the Name of Christ, and at once, to be a Minister, a Worldling, a Sensualist, and a Persecutor.