A26981:282
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.
21. And by this you may know whether you truly place your Treasure in Heaven or on earth (Not by your speculative opinion or words: for what Hypocrite will not say that Heaven is better than Earth?) But by the bent of your hearts: Your Love, Care, Trust, and hope will be where your Treasure is. That which you 1. highliest value practically, 2. and most desire and choose, 3. and labour for, tho with the greatest care and cost, that's it that is indeed your Treasure.
21. And by this you may know whether you truly place your Treasure in Heaven or on earth (Not by your speculative opinion or words: for what Hypocrite will not say that Heaven is better than Earth?) But by the bent of your hearts: Your Love, Care, Trust, and hope will be where your Treasure is. That which you 1. highliest value practically, 2. and most desire and chuse, 3. and labour for, tho with the greatest care and cost, that's it that is indeed your Treasure.
22. The light of the body is the eye: If therefore thy eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light: 23. But if thy eye be ⟨image 12⟩evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness: If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness?
22, 23. As the eye seeth not for it self alone, but for the whole body, to guide its action; so thy understanding or practical judgment is that superior visive faculty that must guide all thy love, and choice and life: If therefore thy judgment be sound, and thou knowest the difference between laying up a treasure in Heaven and on Earth, it will rightly guide all the actions of thy heart and life: but if thy judgment be blinded in this great affair, it will misguide thy love, thy choice, and all the tenor of thy life: If thy judgment then be blind which must guide thee, what a miserable erroneous wretch wilt thou be; and how dismal will that error prove.