A26981:489
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.
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.
41. He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive a prophets reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man, in the name of a righteous man, shall receive a righteous mans reward.
41. Note, 1. This tells us that God rewardeth not men according to their gifts, but according to the will and heart: And it is a great comfort to every ungifted and poor inferior Christian, that they may have the reward of Preachers, if they do but receive them and further their works as they are able: yea, if they do but love them, and would receive them if they could, God taketh it as done.
41. Note, 1. This tells us that God rewardeth not men according to their gifts, but according to the will and heart: And it is a great comfort to every ungifted and poor inferiour Christian, that they may have the reward of Preachers, if they do but receive them and further their works as they are able: yea, if they do but love them, and would receive them if they could, God taketh it as done.