A26981:335
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.
24, 25. He that heareth, believeth and obeyeth that which I have now taught you, is like a wise man, &c.
Note, The obedient believer is the only wise man, that buildeth the hopes of his salvation on a sure foundation.
26. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doth them not, shall be like •ed to a foolish man who built his house on the sand: 27. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.
26. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doth them not, shall be like •ed to a foolish man who built his house on the sand: 27. And the rain descended, and the flouds came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.
26, 27. Note, 1. Ungodly men, that hear Christs Gospel and obey it not, are fools, and build their hopes of Salvation as on the sands, 2. All mens Religion and hopes shall be tried, as a house by Storms, whether it be well founded and built or not. 3. Grievous will be the overthrow of the religious hopes of all hypocrites and ungodly livers.