A26981:703
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.
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.
7. Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah Prophecy of you, saying, 8. This people draweth nigh to me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 9. But in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the traditions of men.
7. Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias Prophecy of you, saying, 8. This people draweth nigh to me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 9. But in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the traditions of men.
7, 8, 9. Note, 1. It is the part of hypocrites to pretend Religion, for lip labour, and Traditions and Ceremonies of their own, and think God is honoured and pleased with the injunctions and Canons of men, while they break Gods Commands (an• hate and persecute those that keep them) 2. This humane Religion of hypocrites is vain, (and worse than vain) It is lost labour and sinful profanation.
7, 8, 9. Note, 1. It is the part of hypocrites to pretend Religion, for lip labour, and Traditions and Ceremonies of their own, and think God is honoured and pleased with the injunctions and Canons of men, while they break Gods Commands (an• hate and persecute those that keep them) 2. This humane Religion of hypocrites is vain, (and worse than vain) It is lost labour and sinful prophanation.