A26981:254
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.
6. But when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
6. But do thou pray secretly where only God is witness of thy Prayers (and therefore approve to him thy secret desires and heart, as well as thy words,) and believe that God will openly reward thee.
N. 1. Both public and secret prayer are our duty. 2. Praying only before men is gross hypocrisy: But all secret prayer will not prove sincerity. 3. They that say, We must not serve God for reward, oppose Christ, and Scripture, and all Religion. It is not a reward in Commutative Justice as if we profited God: But in Fatherly love and justice, as pleasing God through Christ, as Fathers reward good children and not bad ones.
N. 1. Both publick and secret prayer are our duty. 2. Praying only before men is gross hypocrisie: But all secret prayer will not prove sincerity. 3. They that say, We must not serve God for reward, oppose Christ, and Scripture, and all Religion. It is not a reward in Commutative Justice as if we profited God: But in Fatherly love and justice, as pleasing God through Christ, as Fathers reward good children and not bad ones.