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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.
29, 30. It may be some will say, My eye is so inclined to enticing looks, and my hand to some forbidden touches or acts, that they offend when I know they should not, and if it go no further, I hope it is safe: But I tell you, this is so poor an excuse, that if you had not the command of Eye and Hand, and had no other way to avoid the sin, it were less hurt to you to pluck out that Eye and cut off that Hand, than to sin and be damned with it. Not that I bid you do so, for you have power otherwise to avoid the sin; but if you had not, it were your wisest way: much more to deny your Eye or Hand all forbidden pleasure.
31. It hath been said, whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement. 32. But I say to you, that whoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery, and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
31, 32. Moses bade you give your wife a Bill of Divorcement if you put her away: And so you have been taught that this is lawful: But I say to you, that you must not put away a wife save for Fornication, and if you do, you are guilty of making her commit Adultery, and he will live in Adultery that shall marry her.
31, 32. Moses bade you give your wife a Bill of Divorcement if you put her away: And so you have been taught that this is lawfull: But I say to you, that you must not put away a wife save for Fornication, and if you do, you are guilty of making her commit Adultery, and he will live in Adultery that shall marry her.