A26981:284
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.
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.
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 superiour 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 errour prove.
24. No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other; or he will hold to the one and despise the other: ye cannot serve God and mammon.
24. And take heed of the self deceit of Hypocrites, who flatter themselves with the hope of having a treasure both on Earth and in Heaven; resolving to keep and prefer this world while they can keep it, and hope that Heaven will be a reserve when they can keep the world no longer; and so they will be as Religious as will stand with their fleshly worldly interest: But I tell you, no man can serve two such contrary Masters: He will love one better than the other, or obey and serve one to the neglect and injury of the other. You cannot love and serve God as God, and yet love and seek worldly wealth and prosperity, as your most beloved trusted treasure. God will not stoop to the world: therefore the world must in your esteem and choice, stoop to God, and be used for him.