A26981:1052
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.
29, 30. You err through the ignorance of your gross and carnal minds, and carnally misunderstand the Scriptures, and the nature and power of God, and so of Spiritual things. In the life after this they have not flesh and blood that lusteth and generateth as here; but they are Spiritual substances like the Angels in Heaven that generate not.
29, 30. You err through the ignorance of your gross and carnal minds, and carnally misunderstand the Scriptures, and the nature and power of God, and so of Spiritual things. In the life after this they have not flesh and bloud that lusteth and generateth as here; but they are Spiritual substances like the Angels in Heaven that generate not.
31. But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying, 32. I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob: God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
31, 32. That there is a life after this, is proved by Gods words: I am the God, &c. That God is their God, implieth that they are his people, and therefore live: For to be Their God, is to be their Ruler and their Benefactor and felicity; a relation which the dead are not capable of. And it is not said, I was their God, but, I am their God. And if Abraham, &c. be alive, so are the souls of other men; and as they die not with the ⟨image 32⟩body, but live with Spirits, So they are capable of a Spiritual body which God will give them.
31, 32. That there is a life after this, is proved by Gods words: I am the God, &c. That God is their God, implyeth that they are his people, and therefore live: For to be Their God, is to be their Ruler and their Benefactor and felicity; a relation which the dead are not capable of. And it is not said, I was their God, but, I am their God. And if Abraham, &c. be alive, so are the souls of other men; and as they die not with the