A26981:185
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.
5. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
5. Though lowly meekness and quiet patience seem a depressed miserable state with men, indeed those that are such are the most happy sort of men even in this world; and their way is the most probable for escaping of outward suffering; while the contrary minded vex themselves with their own impatience and pride, and provoke others to hurt them, and suffer much because they cannot suffer a little; and raising Seditions and Wars, do ruin themselves by revenge and ruining others, and perish by the sword to which they trust.
5. Though lowly meekness and quiet patience seem a depressed miserable state with men, indeed those that are such are the most happy sort of men even in this world; and their way is the most probable for escaping of outward suffering; while the contrary minded vex themselves with their own impatience and pride, and provoke others to hurt them, and suffer much because they cannot suffer a little; and raising Seditions and Wars, do ruine themselves by revenge and ruining others, and perish by the sword to which they trust.
6. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be filled.