A26981:200
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.
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.
13. Ye are the salt of the earth; but if the salt have lost its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden underfoot of men.
13. The World is putrefied with the corruption of all sin; and you that follow me must be as salt to it, to recover it from this corruption. But if you prove filthy and corrupt your selves, what or who shall be salt to you, for your recovery? Corrupt professors of Christianity are more miserable, hopeless and forlorn than Heathens.
13. The World is putrified with the corruption of all sin; and you that follow me must be as salt to it, to recover it from this corruption. But if you prove filthy and corrupt your selves, what or who shall be salt to you, for your recovery? Corrupt professors of Christianity are more miserable, hopeless and forlorn than Heathens.