A26981:400
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. My work is to save Souls; and who but Sinners have need of a Saviour.
13. But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
13. O ye that take on you to be the Teachers of the ignorant, what great need have you to be taught and to study what that saying meaneth, I will have mercy and not Sacrifice. Mercy is a far greater and more pleasing work, than Sacrifice, Ceremonies or outward Rites. And the greatest good is still to be preferred. N. O how little do the Roman persecuting Clergy regard this.
14. Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not.