A26981:843
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.
8. Wherefore if thy hand or foot offend ⟨image 26⟩thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: It is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands, or two feet, to be cast into fire everlasting. 9. And if thy eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee: It is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
8, 9. Let nothing seem too dear to thee to secure thy salvation against such scandals and hinderances and temptations: If it be friend, or interest, as dear to thee as thy hand, or foot, or eye, it is a smaller loss to cast it away here, and be saved hereafter than to keep it here and be damned hereafter to endless misery. If thou hadst no other way to avoid sin but dismembering thy body, it would be a duty and no loss to do it.
8, 9. Let nothing seem too dear to thee to secure thy salvation against such scandals and hinderances and temptations: If it be friend, or interest, as dear to thee as thy hand, or foot, or eye, it is a smaller loss to cast it away here, and be saved hereafter than to keep it here and be damned hereafter to endless misery. If thou hadst no other way to avoid sin but dismembring thy body, it would be a duty and no loss to do it.
Note, 1. Christ had said this before, Mat. 5.30. Its no fault to say the same thing often. 2. If it be so dangerous to be tempted by others, its worse to be our own tempters.