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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.
3. Blessed are the poor in Spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
3. Blessed are ye my true Disciples, though you be poor in the world, if you have Spirits suited to your poverty, for you shall have the Kingdom of Heaven for riches.
N. Poor in Spirit signifieth a mind that is above the love of worldly Riches, and the sins that Riches use to breed and feed, (that is, Sodoms sins, Pride, Fullness, and Idleness, and unmercifulness to the poor;) and such as are contented with food and raiment, having mortified the lusts of the flesh, which thirsts after worldly plenty and delight.
N. Poor in Spirit signifieth a mind that is above the love of worldly Riches, and the sins that Riches use to breed and feed, (that is, Sodoms sins, Pride, Fulness, and Idleness, and unmercifulness to the poor;) and such as are contented with food and raiment, having mortified the lusts of the flesh, which thirsts after worldly plenty and delight.