A26981:883
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.
34. And his Lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due to him. 35. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also to you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
34, 35. Note, Here its doubted, 1. How God •s said to forgive unmerciful men, 2. And to demand […] which he had forgiven, and to unpardon it again. Answ. God hath divers degrees of forgiveness, 1. To give the world a pardon of all sin, on condition of thankful acceptance, is a great degree of forgiveness, tho it be no actual discharge till accepted. 2. To suspend the execution of punishment (with such an offer) and to give him time, ease and mercy, who deserved to be all that time in hell, is a degree of actual forgiveness▪ for to forgive the sin is to forgive the punishment; and bad men have much punishment here forgiven them, which they deserved. And both these may be reversed by mens unbelief and sin.
34, 35. Note, Here its doubted, 1. How God •s said to forgive unmerciful men, 2. And to demand 〈…〉 which he had forgiven, and to unpardon it again. Answ. God hath divers degrees of forgiveness, 1. To give the world a pardon of all sin, on condition of thankful acceptance, is a great degree of forgiveness, tho it be no actual discharge till accepted. 2. To suspend the execution of punishment (with such an offer) and to give him time, ease and mercy, who deserved to be all that time in hell, is a degree of actual forgiveness▪ for to forgive the sin is to forgive the punishment; and bad men have much punishment here forgiven them, which they deserved. And both these may be reversed by mens unbelief and sin.