A26981:320
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.
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.
13. Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way which leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. 14. Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
13, 14. And let not the strictness of the gate and way of life discourage you: The gate is wide, and the way is broad that leadeth to destruction: It is easy to please the flesh, and to neglect a holy life, and great is the multitude that go this way: But do not you follow the multitude in sin unto damnation. The entrance into a life of Faith and Holiness is strait, and the way is narrow, requiring self-denial, mortification, holy diligence, and patient suffering; and it is but few that find this way and the life to which it leadeth. But life eternal cannot be too dearly obtained: Therefore let no difficulties stop you or turn you off.
13, 14. And let not the strictness of the gate and way of life discourage you: The gate is wide, and the way is broad that leadeth to destruction: It is easie to please the flesh, and to neglect a holy life, and great is the multitude that go this way: But do not you follow the multitude in sin unto damnation. The entrance into a life of Faith and Holiness is strait, and the way is narrow, requiring self-denial, mortification, holy diligence, and patient suffering; and it is but few that find this way and the life to which it leadeth. But life eternal cannot be too dearly obtained: Therefore let no difficulties stop you or turn you off.