A26981:1059
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.
37, 38, 39. Jesus said to him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like to it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self.
37, &c. Note, 1. Heart, Soul and mind, seem to mean but wholly with all thy power, Tho we may distinguish them, as meaning the faculties Vital, Sensitive and Intellectual must be devoted to God: Or as some say, The Will, Affections and Understanding. 2. Christ tells us of a great difference between Gods commands: These two are Great above the rest
37, &c. Note, 1. Heart, Soul and mind, seem to mean but wholly with all thy power, Tho we may distinguish them, as meaning the faculties Vital, Sensitive and Intellectual must be devoted to God: Or as some say, The Will, Affections and Understanding. 2. Christ tells us of a great difference betwen Gods commands: These two are Great above the res•
40. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.