A26981:958
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.
24. Note, 1. As some are prone to Ambition, so others to envy them, and be too much offended. 2. This ambitious part of Christs Ministers here, bega• Discontent that tended to Schism, had not Christ soon rebuked it. 3. Christs own Twelve Apostles had their mutual Distastes.
24. Note, 1. As some are prone to Ambition, so others to envy them, and be too much offended. 2. This ambitious part of Christs Ministers here, bega• Discontent that tended to Schism, had not Christ soon rebuked it. 3. Christs own Twelve Apostles had their mutual Distasts.
25. But Jesus called them to him and said, Ye know that the Princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise Authority over them. 26. But it shall not be so among you; but whosoever will be Great among you, let him be your Minister. 27. And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your Servant.
25.26.27. Christ rebuketh these Ambitious desires of Superiority among them, and saith, The Civil Government by the Sword, which the Gentiles exercise, is as Lords by force and fear, and the Great in strength command the rest to do their wills. But in my Church as such, among you my Disciples it shall not be so: But (tho you must be subject to the coercive Government of Magistrates, yet) your own proper Government and pre-eminence shall be, by serviceable Humility and Love, over Volunteers: Church-greatness shall consist, in being most greatly serviceable to the conversion and Edification of Souls▪ and in most humble condescension to that end: And he shall be accounted the Chief Pastor and Christian, who is most humbly serviceable to all. And the Proud, and Domineering, and Unserviceable, shall be the lowest or basest.