A26981:772
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. It is carnal savouring worldly, and fleshly interest too much, and the things of God, the Soul, and Heaven to little, which is the common cause of the sinful counsels, and course, even of Sacred men.
24. Then said Jesus to his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me. 25. For whoever will save his life shall lose it, and whoever will lose his li•e for my sake shall find it.
24. Christ took this occasion to preach self-denial to his Disciples; saying, Let him that will be my Disciple and follow me, and expect Salvation by me, resolve to deny his carnal self, and self-interest, and resign himself to me, as being not his own, but mine: Not making the cross, but patiently taking and bearing it when it is laid upon him, and follow me by sufferings unto glory. For this is the method determined by God, that whoever resolveth to save his life and not be undone in the world to avoid sin, this man shall finally lose his life and life eternal. And whoever will lose his life, rather than by sin to forsake me and his duty, shall find that life with felicity in heaven, which he lost on earth.