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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.
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.
N. 1. It is because of our corrupt averseness, (such as sick men have to a feast) and the restraints and sufferings of the flesh, that Godliness or Faith is called difficult or strait. But in it self and to a sound understanding and will, it is the only pleasant life. To believe God's love and our everlasting glory, must needs be sweeter than to live in guilt and terror, and in despair of any future happiness. 2. The Gate is the entrance by conversion into a life of Faith and Holiness as the way: and the Devil, the World and the Flesh will strive hard against both: But Grace will conquer and make all a delight. 3. Fewer turned Christians then, than did after Christs ascension. But if most on earth perish, how little is the earth, to the vast and glorious regions of the blessed.
N. 1. It is because of our corrupt averseness, (such as sick men have to a feast) and the restraints and sufferings of the flesh, that Godliness or Faith is called difficult or strait. But in it self and to a sound understanding and will, it is the only pleasant life. To believe God's love and our everlasting glory, must needs be sweeter than to live in guilt and terrour, and in despair of any future happiness. 2. The Gate is the entrance by conversion into a life of Faith and Holiness as the way: and the Devil, the World and the Flesh will strive hard against both: But Grace will conquer and make all a delight. 3. Fewer turned Christians then, than did after Christs ascension. But if most on earth perish, how little is the earth, to the vast and glorious regions of the blessed.