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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.
14, 15. God hath honoured you to be the lights to a dark world: It is not therefore an obscure and hidden sort of goodness that beseemeth you: You are called out to be conspicuous in the world, like a City on a hill that cannot be hid; by your difference from them in doctrine and life: Men do not light a candle to hide it, but to to set it up to be a light to the house; And so doth God call you to be open lights in Doctrine and life.
16. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven.
16. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorifie your Father which is in Heaven.
16. Note, That 1. the good works of Christians are the due appointed means to win others to the glorifying of God: and they that do not this are guilty of perfidiousness to God and man, as dumb Ministers are by omitting their work. 2. Therefore our good works must not be so few and small as to be undiscernible: They must not be done in hypocrisy to be seen of men for our praise: But they must shine forth in sincerity to God's praise. 3. By good works is meant Holiness to God, sobriety to our selves, and justice and works of love to others.
16. Note, That 1. the good works of Christians are the due appointed means to win others to the glorifying of God: and they that do not this are guilty of perfidiousness to God and man, as dumb Ministers are by omitting their work. 2. Therefore our good works must not be so few and small as to be undiscernable: They must not be done in hypocrisie to be seen of men for our praise: But they must shine forth in sincerity to God's praise. 3. By good works is meant Holiness to God, sobriety to our selves, and justice and works of love to others.