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A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…
A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1662
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Concerning Martha, some expositors run into two extremes. •e think that she was an unregenerate worldling, and savour• only fleshly things, and that these words of Christ, describe […] state as one that had not yet made choice of the one thing needful, and the better part. But it is only her present action that Christ doth reprehend and censure, and not her state: Her entertainment of Christ, and speeches to him, and other passages, •we us great probability that she was a true disciple, as after it is •aid that Jesus loved her, John 11. 5.
Concerning Martha, some expositors run into two extreams. •e think that she was an unregenerate worldling, and savour• only fleshly things, and that these words of Christ, describe 〈…〉 state as one that had not yet made choice of the one thing •edful, and the better part. But it is only her present action that Christ doth reprehend and censure, and not her state: Her entertainment of Christ, and speeches to him, and other passages, •we us great probability that she was a true disciple, as after it is •aid that Jesus loved her, John 11. 5.
On the other side, One Learned Annotator thus Paraphraseth •e words of Christ to Martha, [Thou takest a great deal of unnecessary, though not culpable pains]; as if Christs words were •o reprehension of her, nor her course blame-worthy.