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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.
Note, This Text which is Christs Law of Church-discipline, is perverted divers ways, by several sorts of mistakers. Some feign that it speaketh not of sins against God, but of injuries against men: and that by the Church is meant the Civil Judicature that then was, (inferior or superior Sanhedrin.) But, 1. it is evident that it is to Christians or Disciples that Christ giveth this Law; others received no Law from him. And it was how to deal with a Brother in order to Repentance, and Salvation, as the foregoing verses show. 2. Christ knew that the Sanhedrin were his deadly enemies, and foretold that they would condemn him; And therefore never made a Law to his Disciples to use them as their ordinary Judicature. 3. He knew that they would hate and persecute his Disciples, and therefore never sent them to them for right. 4. He came to abrogate Moses Law, and overthrow their Mosaic policy: And therefore did not establish it by this Law. 5. He could never mean that Christians must take him for a Heathen that heard not the Jews Council, when •he foretold them how that Council would ⟨image 27⟩scourge them in their Synagogues, and cast out their names, and say all manner of evil of them falsely.
Note, This Text which is Christs Law of Church-discipline, is perverted divers ways, by several sorts of mistakers. Some feign that it speaketh not of sins against God, but of injuries against men: and that by the Church is meant the Civil Judicature that then was, (inferiour or superior Sanhedrim.) But, 1. it is evident that it is to Christians or Disciples that Christ giveth this Law; others received no Law from him. And it was how to deal with a Brother in order to Repentance, and Salvation, as the foregoing verses shew. 2. Christ knew that the Sanhedrim were his deadly enemies, and foretold that they would condemn him; And therefore never made a Law to his Disciples to use them as their ordinary Judicature. 3. He knew that they would hate and persecute his Disciples, and therefore never sent them to them for right. 4. He came to ubrogate Moses Law, and overthrow their Mosaick policy: And therefore did not establish it by this Law. 5. He could never mean that Christians must take him for a Heathen that heard not the Jews Council, when •he foretold them how that Council would ⟨image 27⟩