A26981:292
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.
27. Study your duty and use just means while you trust on God: But your self-troubling distrustful care and thoughtfulness, is but unprofitable self-vexation. All your care cannot make you any taller of stature, nor keep your bodies from decay or death.
28. And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 29. And yet I say to you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30. Wherefore if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
28. And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 29. And yet I say to you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30. Wherefore if God so cloath the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more cloath you, O ye of little faith?
28, 29, 30. And why do you distrustfully care for clothing? You see the Lilies of the field that neither sow nor spin, have yet a more beautiful flower than Solomons most splendid Ornaments could match. And doth God so cloth these and other Plants with beauty, and sweetness, and are you so distrustful and weak in Faith, as to fear that he will neglect you?
28, 29, 30. And why do you distrustfully care for cloathing? You see the Lilies of the field that neither sow nor spin, have yet a more beautifull flower than Solomons most splendid Ornaments could match. And doth God so cloth these and other Plants with beauty, and sweetness, and are you so distrustfull and weak in Faith, as to fear that he will neglect you?