A26981:197
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.
11. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake.
11. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsly for my sake.
11. Think not that I come to advance you to worldly honour: but look to be reviled and persecuted, not only by Heathens but by Jews, and to have all manner ⟨image 9⟩of evil charged on you, and reported of you falsely, for my sake, because you believe me and obey me: But in all this you are blessed, while your false accusers and persecutors are miserable.
11. Think not that I come to advance you to worldly honour: but look to be reviled and persecuted, not only by Heathens but by Jews, and to have all manner ⟨image 9⟩of evil charged on you, and reported of you falsly, for my sake, because you believe me and obey me: But in all this you are blessed, while your false accusers and persecutors are miserable.
12. Rejoice ye and be exceeding glad; for great is your reward in Heaven; for so persecuted they the Prophets who were before you.
12. Rejoyce ye and be exceeding glad; for great is your reward in Heaven; for so persecuted they the Prophets who were before you.