A26981:198
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. 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.
12. Though such usage would break the hearts of worldly men and Hypocrites, do not you only bear it patiently, but joyfully with exceeding gladness, because your reward in Heaven will be so much the surer and greater: for you do but follow the Prophets that are gone this way to heaven before you, whom the carnal Church persecuted and murdered, tho their posterity honour their names when they are dead, but go on and imitate them in hating and persecuting the living.