A26981:1111
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.
34.&c. I foretell you now what will befall you: I will send unto you yet greater Prophets, &c. And thus you will use them. And so when you have filled up the measure of your National Sin, the Destruction deserved by your Ancestors, but suspended by the patien•e and long-suffering of God, shall be suspended no longer, but shall fall on this forsaken Generation, and God will remember all at once, in the day that he dreadfully destroyeth you.
34.&c. I foretel you now what will befall you: I will send unto you yet greater Prophets, &c. And thus you will use them. And so when you have filled up the measure of your National Sin, the Destruction deserved by your Ancestors, but suspended by the patien•e and long-suffering of God, shall be suspended no longer, but shall fall on this forsaken Generation, and God will remember all at once, in the day that he dreadfully destroyeth you.
N. 1. Whether this Zechariah was the Son of Jehojada, in Joash days: and the Name of Barachias slipped into the Text by some Scribes conjecture out of the Description of the Prophet Zechariah: or whether it were any other is of no great Moment.
N. 1. Whether this Zacharias was the Son of Jehojada, in Joash days: and the Name of Barachias slipt into the Text by some Scribes conjecture out of the Description of the Prophet Zachary: or whether it were any other is of no great Moment.
2. The Sins of their Ancestors are said to be punished on that Generation. 1. Because it being a National Punishment, was procured by National Sins which is made up of many Ages. 2. Because Children derive Nature and Guilt in part from Parents Sin, and not from Adam only, as the whole History of Scripture showeth. 3. Because they sinned as their Ancestors did.