A26981:237
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.
42. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn thou not away.
42. Note, The sense is, Be not unwilling to give wh•re ever thou oughtest, but as willing to give as men are to ask; And Asking is one part of thy direction to whom to give. But this excludeth not the use of prudent reason in our giving. 1. We must not give that to one person which we should rather give to others; not to the unworthy or unfit, because they ask, when we should seek after the more needy and worthy that ask not: nor must we give that to one that is due to many; nor give to do a lesser good when by it we might do a greater; nor give that which is not in our power. As to the question, How much we must give, 1. A thousand come far short, for one that charitably gives too much. 2. Every man should study to do God the greatest service he can with his estate, and prudently discern the way. 3. The necessities of others must be preferred before our pleasure and unnecessaries.
42. Note, The sense is, Be not unwilling to give wh•re ever thou oughtest, but as willing to give as men are to ask; And Asking is one part of thy direction to whom to give. But this excludeth not the use of prudent reason in our giving. 1. We must not give that to one person which we should rather give to others; not to the unworhty or unfit, because they ask, when we should seek after the more needy and worthy that ask not: nor must we give that to one that is due to many; nor give to do a lesser good when by it we might do a greater; nor give that which is not in our power. As to the question, How much we must give, 1. A thousand come far short, for one that charitably gives too much. 2. Every man should study to do God the greatest service he can with his estate, and prudently discern the way. 3. The necessities of others must be preferred before our pleasure and unnecessaries.