A26981:668
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.
6, 7, 8. N. Great mens feasts and frolics are a usual season of great sin, and carnal pleasures are their snares. 2. Rash Oaths are the fruit of vice and the seed of more. 3. Voluptuous wantons are oft the most cruel and bloody persecutors. 4. The Devil seldom wanteth suggestors of cruelty.
6, 7, 8. N. Great mens feasts and frolicks are a usual season of great sin, and carnal pleasures are their snares. 2. Rash Oaths are the fruit of vice and the seed of more. 3. Voluptuous wantons are oft the most cruel and bloudy persecutors. 4. The Devil seldom wanteth suggestors of cruelty.
9. And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oaths sake, and them which sate with him, he commanded it to be given her.
9. N. Wicked men oft sin with troubled conscience: but yet will do it for their base ends. 2. Hypocrites that dare murder the just, yet may make the Conscience of a wicked Oath their pretence. (How conscionably then should bad Oaths be avoided and good ones kept?) 3. The reputation of m•n in bad company, is a usual snare of iniquity.