A26981:840
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.
6. But whoever he be that shall gall, discourage, or by threatening, derision, or persecution seek to drive the least from faith and holy living, it were less hurt to that man, (how big soever he now look and talk) that he were drowned in the Sea, with a millstone about his neck: for God will take vengeance on him
6. But whoever he be that shall gall, discourage, or by threatning, derision, or persecution seek to drive the least from faith and holy living, it were less hurt to that man, (how big soever he now look and talk) that he were drowned in the Sea, with a milstone about his neck: for God will take vengeance on him
7. Woe to the world because of offences: for it must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh.
7. Wo to the world because of offences: for it must needs be that offences come, but wo to that man by whom the offence cometh.
7. Woe to the world by reason of the Scandals, oppositions and impediments to faith, holiness and salvation, which men will lay before each other, some by error, some by crimes, and some by persecution: such scandals and hinderances and temptations there will be: God will permit them for trial, and men will commit them. But the sin is great, and it will be woe to the guilty, especially the malignant persecutors and seducers.
7. Wo to the world by reason of the Scandals, oppositions and impediments to faith, holiness and salvation, which men will lay before each other, some by errour, some by crimes, and some by persecution: such scandals and hinderances and temptations there will be: God will permit them for trial, and men will commit them. But the sin is great, and it will be wo to the guilty, especially the malignant persecutors and seducers.