A26981:219
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.
23. Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; 24. Leave thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
23. Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there remembrest that thy brother hath ought against thee; 24. Leave thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
23. Therefore see that you prefer not Sacrifice before Love and Mercy, but if thou bring thy gift to the Altar, and be just ready to offer it, and rememberest that thou hast wronged thy Brother, or given him occasion of uncharitable thoughts of thee; lay more upon love than on thy offering: Leave it there, and go presently and make testitution, confession, or whatever is necessary to reconciliation, and then come and offer thy gift.
23. Therefore see that you prefer not Sacrifice before Love and Mercy, but if thou bring thy gift to the Altar, and be just ready to offer it, and remembrest that thou hast wronged thy Brother, or given him occasion of uncharitable thoughts of thee; lay more upon love than on thy offering: Leave it there, and go presently and make testitution, confession, or whatever is necessary to reconciliation, and then come and offer thy gift.
N. 1. O Christians, lay this deeply to heart, that your Saviour was so great a teacher of Love, that lie preferreth it before all things, even acts of outward Worship, and will take him for no Christian that is not so minded. 2. O what a dreadful aggravation of wickedness is it to turn the very Sacraments themselves into snares of wrath and cruelty, and to curse and damn and tear from the Church all that dare not subscribe and swear to all the inventions of Popes and Councils. And for the preachers of Love and Peace, to say more than [Thou fool] even to Silence and Ruin or Burn all as Heretics or Schismatics, that dare not justify all this.