A26981:482
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.
37. And let not this turn you off: For if you love Father or Mother, Son or Daughter more than me, and would forsake me rather than be forsaken or persecuted by them, you are not capable of being my true Disciples such as I will save.
38. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
38. And he that, if he be put to it, will not follow me under the cross, and suffer a shameful Death rather than deny me, or forsake faith and godliness, is not a true Christian, nor qualified for salvation; nor will I own him in the day of Judgment.
39. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake, shall find it.