A26981:859
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.
3. But how the telling of one Lay-chancellor or Civilian, and hearing or not hearing him, and being Excommunicate by him concerns this Law, I know not, no nor telling or not hearing one single person that judgeth alone over many hundred Churches at a distance and without their notice.
4. This discipline is of great moment, for the honour of Christ and his Church, that it be not as impure as the Infidel world, nor a Swine-fly instead of a Society of Saints; And that it may be known that Christ came not as deceivers do, to get himself a number of followers as bad as other men, but to sanctify a peculiar people to God, zealous of good works, and forsaking the world, the flesh and the devil; and to keep Christians from the snare and the shame of infectious and wicked Associates: and to keep sin under open disgrace.
4. This discipline is of great moment, for the honour of Christ and his Church, that it be not as impure as the Infidel world, nor a Swine-fly instead of a Society of Saints; And that it may be known that Christ came not as deceivers do, to get himself a number of followers as bad as other men, but to sanctifie a peculiar people to God, zealous of good works, and forsaking the world, the flesh and the devil; and to keep Christians from the snare and the shame of infectious and wicked Associates: and to keep sin under open disgrace.
5. Yet if Pastors neglect this holy discipline, the sin is theirs: It doth not necessitate the innocent to forsake the Church, unless their Doctrine or Practice amount to a profest rejection of some essentials of Christianity, or else, they force men to sin or own their sin. But they that can choose better without more hurt than benefit, should prefer it before undisciplined Churches.
5. Yet if Pastors neglect this holy discipline, the sin is theirs: It doth not necessitate the innocent to forsake the Church, unless their Doctrine or Practice amount to a profest rejection of some essentials of Christianity, or else, they force men to sin or own their sin. But they that can chuse better without more hurt than benefit, should prefer it before undisciplined Chuches.