A26981:193
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.
9. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.
9. Tho peacemakers use to be hated by both extremes and sides of the contentious whom they would reconcile, yet they are blessed that do it sincerely from the predominant love of God and Man and Peace; for as Children are like the Father, so are they to the God of Love and peace, who hath reconciled his Enemies to him by Christ.
9. Tho peacemakers use to be hated by both extreams and sides of the contentious whom they would reconcile, yet they are blessed that do it sincerely from the predominant love of God and Man and Peace; for as Children are like the Father, so are they to the God of Love and peace, who hath reconciled his Enemies to him by Christ.
10. Blessed are they that are persecuted for righteousness sake; for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
10. Tho men think them miserable that are oppressed and ruined in the World: they are blessed if they are persecuted for righteousness sake: For its Gods cause who will reward them with the Kingdom of Heaven, and never let any be a loser by his obedience to him.