A26981:1038
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.
15. Then went the Pharisees and took counsel, how they might entangle him in his talk.
15. The malicious Pharisees consulted how to get some words from him, for which they might accuse him.
16. And they sent unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man, for thou regardest not the person of men. 17. Tell us therefore what thinkest thou, Is it lawful to give tribute to Cesar, or not.
16, 17. There were then two parties among the Jews: The King Herod's party who were for giving Tribute to the Romans, and the Pharisees party ⟨image 31⟩that were against the right of it. And they sought to ensnare Christ, saying, It is the part of a Prophet not to fear man how great soever, but plainly to speak the truth; and we know thou art such an one: Therefore tell us, &c.