A26981:216
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.
20. So far am I from Preaching looseness, or favouring sin, that I tell you, tho the Scribes and Pharisees pretend to the strictest keeping of the Law; if you keep it not better than they do, and be not a better and a more righteous sort of men, you shall in no case enter into the Kingdom of heaven. Note, That besides Christ's Righteousness, there is necessary to all (at age) that will be saved, a righteousness consisting in more careful exact obedience to God, than any formal Hypocrite hath. And this God's Spirit worketh them unto.
20. So far am I from Preaching loosness, or favouring sin, that I tell you, tho the Scribes and Pharisees pretend to the strictest keeping of the Law; if you keep it not better than they do, and be not a better and a more righteous sort of men, you shall in no case enter into the Kingdom of heaven. Note, That besides Christ's Righteousness, there is necessary to all (at age) that will be saved, a righteousness consisting in more careful exact obedience to God, than any formal Hypocrite hath. And this God's Spirit worketh them unto.
21. Ye have heard that it was said by them of old times, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of judgment. 22. But I say to you, that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause, shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever shall say to his brother Raca, ⟨image 10⟩shall be in danger of the Council: But whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of Hell-fire.
21. Moses's Law was that Murder shall be punished with death (by the lesser Sanhedrin) And the carnal Jews have taken this to be all that the Sixth Commandment condemned: But God's Law is perfect however carnal men misunderstand it; and I tell you, that 1. whoever lets out his passion of hurtful and uncharitable anger against any man without or beyond just cause, doth in some degree break the Sixth Commandment, and therefore deserveth answerable punishment: And 2. Whoever shall causelessly scorn or revile his Brother; breaketh the Command yet more, and deserveth greater punishment: But whosoever shall utterly despise him causelessly, with an uncharitable conclusion that he is a fool or a wicked man, or a Schismatic, or an Heretic, when it is not so, shall have yet far greater punishment, even Hll-fire, answering that in the valley of Hinnom.