A26981:1025
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.
5, 6. Note, As did the Jews so do many others. make light of Christ, and all his offers of Grace and Glory, and mind more their Farms and Merchandise, their worldly interest and prosperity. And others more wicked than they, do persecute those that would convert and save them. O odious unthankfulness! thus to requite the greatest offers of Christ and his servants.
5, 6. Note, As did the Jews so do many others. make light of Christ, and all his offers of Grace and Glory, and mind more their Farms and Merchandize, their worldly interest and prosperity. And others more wicked than they, do persecute those that would convert and save them. O odious unthankfulness! thus to requite the greatest offers of Christ and his servants.
7. But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth, and sent forth his armies and destroyed those murderers, and burnt up their city.
7. But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth, and sent forth his armies and destroyed those murtherers, and burnt up their city.
7. Note, So did God send the Romans to destroy the Jews and burn Jerusalem; and hath often plagued persecutors, and the day of revenge will come.