A26981:188
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.
6. Blessed are you, though now you hunger for want of bread, if you hunger and thirst after righteousness of heart and life towards God and man, as those that would fain be perfect in holiness, and doing good to all; and that not with a sluggish wish, but a desire that useth effectual endeavour: For you shall have full satisfaction of all such desires, and more than you can desire now, when the full are sent empty away.
7. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
7. Tho God's grace and mercy be free, yet men must be fit receivers, and not reject it: And it is the merciful that are thus blessed, as qualified for saving mercy from God: while the cruel and oppressors, and persecutors, and unmerciful, reject mercy by their forfeiture and incapacity, and undo themselves by hurting others.
8. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.