A26981:700
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.
3. But he answered and said to them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your traditions.
3. N. The Rebels that break Gods Laws by their Laws, yet charge Gods servants with sin, for not keeping their Laws and Traditions against Gods Laws. They think Gods Laws too many and too strict, and yet make more of their own, and are precise for keeping them.
4. For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and he that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. 5. But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me, 6. and honour not his father or his mother (he shall be free) thus ye have made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
4, 5, 6. Gods command to honour Parents binds you to relieve them, if they be in want: And duty to Parents is so great, that contempt of them deserves death. But ye have like hypocrites got a trick to pretend to devote your estates to God, that you may defeat your parents, and so quite frustrate Gods commandment.