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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.
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.
15. Beware of false Prophets who come to you in sheeps clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves: 16. Ye shall know them by their fruits: Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
15. Beware of false Prophets who come to you in sheeps cloathing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves: 16. Ye shall know them by their fruits: Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?