A26981:318
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, 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.
12. And as you may gather by your own love to your children what love God hath to you; so if you would have God over-rule the hearts and actions of men to love you and do you good, see that you first love them and do them good, and that is the most probable way to obtain it: It is desirable, that all men do use you with Justice and Charity: Do you therefore be sure so to use all men: (Not that a man who hurteth himself, or would have another hurt him by temptation or sin, may therefore hurt another. But) be more forward to do good, than to expect it from others: and put your self in their case, and do to them, whatever (prudently and justly) you would have them do to you, supposing their case and yours were exchanged.