A26981:1115
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. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the Prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not?
37. How oft have I offered by my Messengers, and attempted to gather thee into a State of greatest savour and safety, with tenderest Love; but you would not Consent.
N. 1. Christ would have taken the whole City and Nation into his Church, had they not refused: And therefore Infants as they were before. 2. If the Jews had all believed in Christ, he would not have continued the Law of Moses, and that Policy, which did but lead to him, nor have forsaken the rest of the World, to make them only his Church; but would have made them a part of the Catholic Church.
N. 1. Christ would have taken the whole City and Nation into his Church, had they not refused: And therefore Infants as they were before. 2. If the Jews had all believed in Christ, he would not have continued the Law of Moses, and that Policie, which did but lead to him, nor have forsaken the rest of the World, to make them onely his Church; but would have made them a part of the Catholike Church.