A26981:317
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.
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.
9, 10, 11. Do not distrust Gods goodness and willingness to do good: All the love that is good in you, is but a spark from the God of infinite goodness. Therefore if you would not give a stone to your Children that ask bread of you, nor a Serpent to that Child that asketh a Fish; and if you that are so bad men, will give good things and not evil, to your Children, O how much more abundantly should you believe your heavenly Father ready and willing to do good to his children who ask it of him, being fitted to receive it.
12. Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.