A26981:256
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.
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.
7. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the Heathen do, for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. 8. Be not ye therefore like unto them; for your Father knoweth what things you have need of before you ask him.
7. When you pray do not so repeat over the same words, or lengthen your Prayers with unmeet repetitions, as the Heathens do, that think canting over certain words, or spinning out Prayers to such a length, is acceptable to God: or as if God were moved by terms or length. For God is your Father, and knows what you need before you speak, and pitieth you according to your needs: And your Prayers are not to move and change him, but by exercising your own desires, and faith and repentance and thankfulness, to make you fit to receive his further gifts.
7. When you pray do not so repeat over the same words, or lengthen your Prayers with unmeet repetitions, as the Heathens do, that think canting over certain words, or spinning out Prayers to such a length, is acceptable to God: or as if God were moved by terms or length. For God is your Father, and knows what you need before you speak, and pityeth you according to your needs: And your Prayers are not to move and change him, but by exercising your own desires, and faith and repentance and thankfulness, to make you fit to receive his further gifts.