A26981:487
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.
40. He that receiveth you, receiveth me; and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me.
40. And seeing you are my Messengers, and your Commission shall be sealed by the convincing evidence of the miraculous and sanctifying operations of the Holy Ghost, I will own you in all you say, do, or suffer according to your commission, and will reward them that receive you and your words, as if they received me my self; (for I am not to stay on earth to do all my work my self, but will do it by my Ministers.) And he that receiveth me shall be accepted by my Father, as if he had received him.
N. As this is a most strong and comfortable obligation to the receiving of Christs true Ministers; so it is dreadful profaneness to hear a proud domineering enemy of Godliness, that hath got by force into the title of the Ministry, and labours to make true Godliness odious, and persecuteth the most faithful, to plead this Text, as if he that heard and received their malignant scorns at Piety, did hear and receive Jesus Christ.
N. As this is a most strong and comfortable obligation to the receiving of Christs true Ministers; so it is dreadful prophaneness to hear a proud domineering enemy of Godliness, that hath got by force into the title of the Ministery, and labours to make true Godliness odious, and persecuteth the most faithful, to plead this Text, as if he that heard and received their malignant scorns at Piety, did hear and receive Jesus Christ.