A26981:567
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.
29. How could I cast out Satan from his possession and destroy his works, if I did not overcome him.
30. He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
30. So far am I from working by the Devil, that I take him for mine enemy that doth not serve me in my opposition to his Kingdom, and will judge him as one that is for Satan.
N. In War men use to say of their own Soldiers, [He that is not for us is against us, and to be counted an enemy] But of the Countrymen and the enemies quarters [He that is not against us is for us:] that is, If he do us no harm, he doth us good, and let us use him kindly. So Christ saith of profest Christians; If they be not effectually for me, I will judge them as treacherous and against me, and shall not save them. But of those without the Church, he saith, He that is not against us is for us; that is, tho he be not himself in a state of Salvation as true Christians are, yet its commendable to do us no harm, and the Church is assisted by such fair and moderate unbelievers.