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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.
CHAP. III.
1. IN those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the Wilderness of Judea. 2. And saying, Repent ye for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
1, 2. In those days John as a Prophet inspired by God, Baptized upon preaching in the Wilderness of Judea; that the Kingdom of the Messiah long looked for, was now just at hand: and therefore they should by true Repentance be prepared for its Entertainment
1, 2. In those daies John as a Prophet inspired by God, Baptized upon preaching in the Wilderness of Judea; that the Kingdom of the Messiah long looked for, was now just at hand: and therefore they should by true Repentance be prepared for its Entertainment
N. 1. Its called the Kingdom of Heaven, because, it is a Theocracy, a Special Government of God by a saviour sent from Heaven to lead men to Heaven: as distinct from the profane Kingdoms of the World, who look but to humane power and Laws and bodily prosperity. 2. That of