The Practical Expositor, or an Exposition of the New Testament, in the Form of a Paraphrase, Vol. 6: With Occasional Notes in Their Proper Places for ... of Every Chapter; Containing the General Epis - Softcover

Guyse, John

 
9780259313458: The Practical Expositor, or an Exposition of the New Testament, in the Form of a Paraphrase, Vol. 6: With Occasional Notes in Their Proper Places for ... of Every Chapter; Containing the General Epis
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ISBN 10: 0259313459 ISBN 13: 9780259313458
Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2017

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Excerpt from The Practical Expositor, or an Exposition of the New Testament, in the Form of a Paraphrase, Vol. 6: With Occasional Notes in Their Proper Places for Further Explication, and Serious Recollections at the Close of Every Chapter; Containing the General Epistles of James, Peter, John and Jude; And the Revelation of St. John the Divine

The apoille, after the infotiption and falutation, encourages true believers to hear their trials with chearfulnefs and patience to maintain good thoughts of God, and charge themfelves with all fin ful elfeéls of their temptations to keep a watch over their turbu lent pallions and to receive the word of God with meeknefs, and put it into practice, cbap. I. Cautions them agaiui't Ihewing a partial and undue 1efpe€t to the rich, and treating the poor with contempt and neglect, under feigned expreflions of pity to uard them, takes occafion from thence to illufirate that part of his dehoo, which related to the infignificancy of all profefiions of faith m Chiiil: for juftification, without fome proof of its fincerity by f1u1tfulnefs m good works, which he confirms by the evidences that Aft/whom and Kabob gave of the truth and prevalent power of their faith in aéls of holy obedience, cbnp. 11. Proceeds to guard them againfl reoviling, cenforious, and iniperiousjanguage, Ihewing' tthat mifchief is done by an unruly tongue, and how inconfif'tent an indulgence of 1t is with the Chriflian tefnper and profefiion, and with heavenly wifdom, cbap.11i. Reproves them for their litigious, proud, worldly, and envious fpirit, which marred and defeated their prayers, and was contrary to God and his law, and for their dif regard to Providence, m purfuing their fecular affairs, c/a. Iv. Denounces the Judgments of God againfi thofe of the unbelieving jowr, as foon to come upon them, who heaped up riches to them ielves by unrighteousg (rains. And then, turning again to the Chrif tian converts, he exhorts them to wait with patience for deliver ance from the worll: of their enem1es, who Ihould fall by approach ing calamities, and for the better bleflings of the World to come, without envying thofe that were in more affluent circumflance's of this life, than themfelves vand éfpecially to avoid rafh and common iwearing; to behave with a fuitable Chrifiian fpirit m profpe1ity and adveifity to acknowledge their faults to. And offer foch pray ers for, one another, as God will hear and anfwer and to do what in them lay, fat the converfion of thofe that had lived 1n erroneous and 11nful courfes, contraiy to the truth and bolineis of the gofpel.

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Excerpt from The Practical Expositor, or an Exposition of the New Testament, in the Form of a Paraphrase, Vol. 6: With Occasional Notes in Their Proper Places for Further Explication, and Serious Recollections at the Close of Every Chapter; Containing the General Epistles of James, Peter, John and Jude; And the Revelation of St. John the Divine

The apoille, after the infotiption and falutation, encourages true believers to hear their trials with chearfulnefs and patience to maintain good thoughts of God, and charge themfelves with all fin ful elfeéls of their temptations to keep a watch over their turbu lent pallions and to receive the word of God with meeknefs, and put it into practice, cbap. I. Cautions them agaiui't Ihewing a partial and undue 1efpe€t to the rich, and treating the poor with contempt and neglect, under feigned expreflions of pity to uard them, takes occafion from thence to illufirate that part of his dehoo, which related to the infignificancy of all profefiions of faith m Chiiil: for juftification, without fome proof of its fincerity by f1u1tfulnefs m good works, which he confirms by the evidences that Aft/whom and Kabob gave of the truth and prevalent power of their faith in aéls of holy obedience, cbnp. 11. Proceeds to guard them againfl reoviling, cenforious, and iniperiousjanguage, Ihewing' tthat mifchief is done by an unruly tongue, and how inconfif'tent an indulgence of 1t is with the Chriflian tefnper and profefiion, and with heavenly wifdom, cbap.11i. Reproves them for their litigious, proud, worldly, and envious fpirit, which marred and defeated their prayers, and was contrary to God and his law, and for their dif regard to Providence, m purfuing their fecular affairs, c/a. Iv. Denounces the Judgments of God againfi thofe of the unbelieving jowr, as foon to come upon them, who heaped up riches to them ielves by unrighteousg (rains. And then, turning again to the Chrif tian converts, he exhorts them to wait with patience for deliver ance from the worll: of their enem1es, who Ihould fall by approach ing calamities, and for the better bleflings of the World to come, without envying thofe that were in more affluent circumflance's of this life, than themfelves vand éfpecially to avoid rafh and common iwearing; to behave with a fuitable Chrifiian fpirit m profpe1ity and adveifity to acknowledge their faults to. And offer foch pray ers for, one another, as God will hear and anfwer and to do what in them lay, fat the converfion of thofe that had lived 1n erroneous and 11nful courfes, contraiy to the truth and bolineis of the gofpel.

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