A26981:570
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. 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.
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 Countreymen 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.
31. Wherefore I say to you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven to men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven to men. 32. And whoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him, but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in the world to come.
31, 32. All other sin and blasphemy against me as I appear in my humane nature, hath some excuse, and may be cured, and so be pardoned: But seeing the Great works of the Holy Ghost done by me and to be done by my Disciples, in Miracles and Sanctification, are the greatest evidences that God will give the world to convince them of the truth of my Gospel, he that is convinced of the fact that all these Miracles and this holiness is wrought, and will yet deny it to be Gods attestation, and blasphemously stand to it, that its the work of the Devil, this man rejecteth the greatest evidence