A26981:1031
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.
10. So the Gospel was preached to the Gentiles of all sorts, and high and low came in to the Church.
11. And when the king came in to see his guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment. 12. And he saith to him, Friend, how camest thou in hither, not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
11, 12, N. Among the Jews the Marriages of rich men were solemnized with extraordinary pomp and feasting, and by the Wedding or festival garment, is meant, true Faith and Repentance. N. 1. Though all must be called in to the Church, it is meant that they come as Christians indeed, with true Faith and Repentance, and dishonour not the Church by worldly common hearts and lives. 2. God will find out every Hypocrite in the Church. 3. None will be more unexcusable and speechless in judgment, than ungodly hypocrites called Christians, that live wickedly. 4. It is not the Minister that called such, nor the company that joined with them, that are blamed.
11, 12, N. Among the Jews the Marriages of rich men were solemnized with extraordinary pomp and feasting, and by the Wedding or festival garment, is meant, true Faith and Repentance. N. 1. Though all must be called in to the Church, it is meant that they come as Christians indeed, with true Faith and Repentance, and dishonour not the Church by worldly common hearts and lives. 2. God will find out every Hypocrite in the Church. 3. None will be more unexcusable and speechless in judgment, than ungodly hypocrites called Christians, that live wickedly. 4. It is not the Minister that called such, nor the company that joyned with them, that are blamed.