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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.
3, 4. So censorious are hypocrites of others, that the mote of a small infirmity or dissent is seen in their eyes, as if it were some intolerable thing, which they must pluck out (as the Pharisees censured Christ and his Disciples for not observing their ceremonies and traditions) But if thou know thy self, mayest thou not find worse than this in thy self? (Hath a Pharisee nothing worse than Non-conformity to his ceremonies and traditions? How canst thou think his mote of ceremonial or small difference intolerable, while thou easily bearest thy own formality, magisterial pride and worldly mind, and other great and deadly sins?
3, 4. So censorious are hypocrites of others, that the mote of a small infirmity or dissent is seen in their eyes, as if it were some intollerable thing, which they must pluck out (as the Pharisees censured Christ and his Disciples for not observing their ceremonies and traditions) But if thou know thy self, mayest thou not find worse than this in thy self? (Hath a Pharisee nothing worse than Non-conformity to his ceremonies and traditions? How canst thou think his mote of ceremonial or small difference intollerable, while thou easily bearest thy own formality, magisterial pride and worldly mind, and other great and deadly sins?
5. Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam that is in thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brothers eye.
5. Thou Hypocrite, first see that thou have no greater fault thy self; cast away the beam of pride, worldliness, formality, malignity, and fleshly vice out of thy self, and then thou wilt be more capable to judge of thy brothers sailings, and sitter to reprove him.