A26981:224
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.
27. Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery But I say to you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
27. So Moses said in the Seventh Commandment, Thou shalt not commit Adultery: And the carnal Jews looked but little deeper: But I tell you, that whoever casteth on a woman a wanton eye, stirring up lust, and unlawful carnal imaginations and pleasure, or useth his other senses to stir up such lusts, as defile the mind▪ or tend towards Fornication, he hath in his heart broken the Seventh Commandment in some degree.
27. So Moses said in the Seventh Commandment, Thou shalt not commit Adultery: And the carnal Jews lookt but little deeper: But I tell you, that whoever casteth on a woman a wanton eye, stirring up lust, and unlawful carnal imaginations and pleasure, or useth his other senses to stir up such lusts, as defile the mind▪ or tend towards Fornication, he hath in his heart broken the Seventh Commandment in some deg•ee.
29. And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee; for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into Hell. 30. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee; for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into Hell.