A26981:705
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.
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.
10. And he called the multitude, and ⟨image 23⟩said to them, Hear and understand. 11. Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man, but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
10, 11. It is not the quality or uncleanness of your food, that is sin and soul defilement; but it is sinful words (and deeds) the product of sinful hearts, that God will charge on you as your uncleanness.