A26981:190
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.
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.
8. God will not bless impure unholy souls with the light of his Countenance, and the comfort of his Love; nor dwell with the filthy workers of Iniquity; without holiness none shall see God. But you whose hearts, his grace hath purified from the filth of fleshly worldly lusts, and the love of sin, are a blessed people, for Grace hath fitted you for begun Communion with God here, and you shall see him in heavenly glory hereafter. He hath not purified your hearts in vain.
9. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.