A26981:446
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.
11, &c. Enquire who is a godly person, willingest to entertain the Gospel: And when you come to any house say, Peace be to this house; that is, Gods blessing be here. And if the persons be godly, and truly qualified for his blessing, it shall come upon them, else not, but you shall be clear. Note, 1. There is a worthiness consistent with free grace. 2. And a worthiness before their receiving of the Gospel. This had two degrees, 1. The highest degree was true saith and godliness suited to that knowledge that the faithful had before Christs incarnation: who were in a state of Salvation, but yet had not the knowledge of the Gospel, (fully so called) and that Jesus was the Christ. Such was Zechariah and Elizabeth, and Nathanael, and the Centurion, Act. 10, &c. 2. And those that had but preparatory grace, or a teachable tractable willing disposition, were more worthy, (or less unworthy) than the refractory.
11, &c. Enquire who is a godly person, willingest to entertain the Gospel: And when you come to any house say, Peace be to this house; that is, Gods blessing be here. And if the persons be godly, and truly qualified for his blessing, it shall come upon them, else not, but you shall be clear. Note, 1. There is a worthiness consistent with free grace. 2. And a worthiness before their receiving of the Gospel. This had two degrees, 1. The highest degree was true saith and godliness suited to that knowledge that the faithfull had before Christs incarnation: who were in a state of Salvation, but yet had not the knowledge of the Gospel, (fully so called) and that Jesus was the Christ. Such was Zachary and Elizabeth, and Nathanael, and the Centurion, Act. 10, &c. 2. And those that had but preparatory grace, or a teachable tractable willing disposition, were more worthy, (or less unworthy) than the refractory.
2. Ministers being not heart-searchers, must pronounce Gods blessing on men, on uncertainties and mere probability of the event: 3. This benediction hath ever a condition implied, if the person be worthy or capable of it. 4. If that person be unworthy and unblest, the Minister is blameless, if he went according to probable profession: The fault was his own. 5. No Ministerial blessing, (Baptizing, the Lords Supper, Absolution, &c.) will save an unworthy person, that is, one not qualified for Salvation according to Gods promise.