A26981:269
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.
Note, Reader, So perfect is the Method of the Lords Prayer, that I had thought to have Anatomized it and set it before thee in a Scheme. But I now write for the less learned that cannot well comprehend accurateness: They that can may find it done already in my Latin Method of Theology; and the lower sort may find such a brief and plain Exposition as such are capable of, in my Family Catechism: And in both the controversies hereabout resolved.
14. For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15. But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
14. Lest you should think that no qualification for pardon and other gifts are necessary in you, I again repeat what selfish nature is loth to observe, that tho God be your heavenly Father, yet your love and forgiveness of your Brother is so necessary to his forgiving you, that without it you shall not be forgiven: For if you have not this in sincerity, you are not God's children, and he is called your Heavenly Father but as offering you his grace: But if you have sincere Love, with notable defects in your forgiving others, God will correct you as Children, and will not forgive you some sharp chastisements; but make you know that you must love others, if you will have the comfort of his love.