A26981:853
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.
14. God loveth them better than you love sheep; therefore he will save them, and judge all those that would affright or drive away from their duty, the meanest person.
14. God loveth them better than you love sheep; therefore he will save them, and judge all those that would afright or drive away from their duty, the meanest person.
15. Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. 16. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. 17. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it to the Church: but if he neglect to hear the Church, let him be to thee as an heathen man, and a publican.
15, &c. And according to this compassionate tenderness of God, and your Saviour, must be your dealing with one another; not to favour sin in any, but to seek by love to save the sinner: Therefore if any one that thou hast brotherly communion with, do trespass against thee, by injury, or by scandalous crimes within thy notice, go and tell him his fault privately in brotherly love and tenderness, yet showing him the evil of his sin that he may repent: If he hear thee so as to repent and amend, thou hast won him from the danger of his guilt, which may be a comfort to thee: But if he defend his sin, or will not repent and amend, cease not thy love or labour, but take with thee one or two meet persons, that two or three witnesses may the more awe him, or credibly convict him. And if he neglect to hear them, (having exercised due patience for the trial, and fit means to convince him) then make it public, by telling the Church, in whose communion he liveth; either by opening it in the Congregation that the Church-Guides may reprove him and exhort him to repent, and pray for his repentance; or when that is not convenient, tell it the Guides of the Church that they may make it public and do their office. And if he neglect to hear, this public exhortation, have no more communion or familiarity with him than with a Heathen or Publican, but so carry it that he and others may see that thou esteemest him not as one of the Christian Society whom Christ will own.