A26981:315
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.
7. And to obtain grace and mercy to your selves, true Prayer is Gods appointed means, Ask of God and he will give it you, seek diligently and you shall find, &c. For every one that asketh in sincerity, and seeketh with diligence and constancy shall obtain.
Note, That is, if he pray to God believing his power, and goodness, in the name of Christ, and trusting in his merits and intercession, and this first and chiefly for God's glory and for things spiritual and everlasting, and for earthly things as means to these, and if he be earnest, diligent and constant in such askings, seeking and knocking, he shall certainly have grace and Glory, and all outward things so far as they are sit for him, and he for them.
9. Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? 10. Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11. If ye then being evil, know ⟨image 13⟩how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him.