A26981:495
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.
42. He that loveth a Christian as such, more than his riches, and would give him more if he had it, if he give but a cup of cold Water, to the poorest weakest Christian because he is a Christian, shall not lose the reward that I here promise.
Note, 1. What a safe way of usury hath Christ taught all Believers? He is an unbeliever who thinks he shall be a loser by any obedience to Christ.
2. It is not the Rich only that shall have the reward of Charity, but the Poor also that do their best, and would give if they were able.
3. It is not only charity to Preachers and rare persons, but to the least Christians, that Christ will reward.
4. Therefore it is not only slandering, reviling and […] eminent servants of Christ, but even the […] Christians, that Christ will con […] miserable pretence to say, they […] ty (perhaps for dissenting from […] of usurpers,) as if any men were free from all error.