A26981:768
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. Good men do the Devils work oft times when they know it not, but verily think it is all for Christ.
4. No love or respect to mens nearness or goodness, must draw us to flatter them in sin, or to speak lightly ⟨image 25⟩of it; we must not mince it or extenuate it because good men commit it: we must lay it home on them, that would by justifying it make it pass for duty. Lest the name of Good men should serve Satan more effectually than men of known wickedness can do.
4. No love or respect to mens nearness or goodness, must draw us to flatter them in sin, or to speak lightly ⟨image 25⟩of it; we must not mince it or extennate it because good men commit it: we must lay it home on them, that would by justifying it make it pass for duty. Lest the name of Good men should serve Satan more effectually than men of known wickedness can do.
5. It is no railing on just occasions to tell tempting friends, and godly men or Ministers, that they are doing the Devils wo•k, and are instead of Devils to the tempted.