A26981:241
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.
CHAP. VI.
1. Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise you have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
1. TAke heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise you have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
1. Be careful to avoid hypocrisy, and a proud desire of praise in your works of Charity: You may do it when men see you; but not to be seen: If you take mens esteem and praise for your reward, you forfeit and lose God's heavenly reward.
1. Be careful to avoid hypocrisie, and a proud desire of praise in your works of Charity: You may do it when men see you; but not to be seen: If you take mens esteem and praise for your reward, you forfeit and lose God's heavenly reward.
2. Therefore when thou dost thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the Synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men: Verily I say to you, They have their reward.