A26981:575
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.
33. Either make the tree good and his fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruits.
33. Judge of the tree by the fruit: Of the power which I work by, by the works: If it be no good work to heal the Sick, and Blind, and Lame, and cast out Devils, and preach repentance and forgiveness of sin, to convert and save Souls, then God is not the Author of them. If they be bad works, they have a bad cause; If they be good works, they have a good Author: either say plainly (you that ascribe them to the Devil) that the works are good, and the Devil is good: or else that the Devil is bad and the works are bad: Or if you confess the works to be good, confess that they are done by the Spirit of God.
34. O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
34. I need go no farther for an instance than your selves; were you not a generation of Vipers, the Serpents seed, ye would not blaspheme the Holy Ghost and his works: for your mouths speak out of the evil of which your heart is full: As you are, so you speak; you are so bad that you cannot speak well: And if I worked by the Devil, my works would be bad as the Devil is.