A26981:857
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.
1 Nor did Christ set up a Christian Judicature of Magistrates, having the power of the sword instead of the Jewish. For, 1. Christ himself refused to use such a power, on earth. 2. He forbade it his Disciples that strove for it. 3. The Text speaketh of no forcing power, but persuasive, and of no penalty but Alienation and disowning. 4. The Apostles did never set up any such coactive Civil Judicature, nor the Church after them for 300 years and much more: which they would have done had Christ commanded it. 5. But they did set up such Ecclesiastic Judicatures wherever they gathered Churches; which was their actual visible exposition of this Law of Christ. 6. It is not restitution, or recovery of Lands, Goods or Rights that is here mentioned as the end; but the Winning of a brother by repentance. 7. And what is more noted by Christ as an offence or trespass against us, than scandal, and dishonouring the Christian name and society, and grieving good men by sinning against God. I think these evidences prove past doubt, that it is the discipline of Christian Churches Christ here institutes by a standing Law; for which he gave the power of the Keys.
1 Nor did Christ set up a Christian Judicature of Magistrates, having the power of the sword instead of the Jewish. For, 1. Christ himself refused to use such a power, on earth. 2. He forbad it his Disciples that strove for it. 3. The Text speaketh of no forcing power, but perswasive, and of no penalty but Alienation and disowning. 4. The Apostles did never set up any such coactive Civil Judicature, nor the Church after them for 300 years and much more: which they would have done had Christ commanded it. 5. But they did set up such Ecclesiastick Judicatures wherever they gathered Churches; which was their actual visible exposition of this Law of Christ. 6. It is not restitution, or recovery of Lands, Goods or Rights that is here mentioned as the end; but the Winning of a brother by repentance. 7. And what is more noted by Christ as an offence or trespass against us, than scandal, and dishonouring the Christian name and society, and grieving good men by sinning against God. I think these evidences prove past doubt, that it is the discipline of Christian Churches Christ here institutes by a standing Law; for which he gave the power of the Keys.