A26981:309
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.
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.
6. Give not that which is holy to the dogs, neither case ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under feet, and turn again and rent you.
6. And as it is not every one that is fit to reprove, so it is not every one that is fit to be reproved. Tho to seek mens salvation by teaching and reproof, be a work of great moment, when it is used in season, to them that are capable of it; yet take this rule; pretend not duty to teach and reprove when its clearly like to do more hurt than good: some men are hardened scorners, and some senseless neglecters, and some hateful, persecutors: To such as those, holy counsel, doctrine and reproof, is but like casting Sacramental or consecrated bread to the dogs, or pearls before swine. To be thus wise and righteous over much, is but the way to perish and be rent, or at least made a scorn to beastly men. It is no duty where it is no means to good, yea to greater good than hurt.