A26981:1124
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.
3. And as he sate on the mount of Olives, his disciples came to him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world.
3. They desired him that had so oft told them, that he must be Crucified, and Rise again, and yet come again, to tell them the meaning, and signs of this his coming, which they did not well understand. Some Expositors of this hard Chapter think, That the Question meaneth no more, than [what shall be the Signs of thy Coming to Destroy Jerusalem; and of the end of their Policy. Others think, That they expected that Christ should presently come, and Reign at Jerusalem and set up a Kingdom so excellent, as should be the beginning of a New Age, or World; as Noah's after the Deluge, when all the World of wicked men should submit to him or be destroyed. Others say, That these questions are put of different things, and times, and accordingly Answered, 1. When the Temple should be Destroyed? 2. When Christ would set up his Visible Kingdom. 3. When the World should End? The two first undoubtedly they meant; but by his Coming I do not think they meant, either his sending the Roman Army, nor his Coming at the Day of Resurrection and Judgment; but his Coming to be a Visible Monarch, and Declaring himself King, and Reigning accordingly. And 3. By the End of the World, whether they meant the utter Desolation at last, or the End of the Unreformed, Age, or World, which his Kingdom should overthrow, I am not certain. And though Christ do not presently blame their mis-expectations, his Answers approve them not, but tend to rectify them.
3. They desired him that had so oft told them, that he must be Crucifyed, and Rise again, and yet come again, to tell them the meaning, and signs of this his coming, which they did not well understand. Some Expositors of this hard Chapter think, That the Question meaneth no more, than [what shall be the Signs of thy Coming to Destroy Jerusalem; and of the end of their Policie. Others think, That they expected that Christ should presently come, and Reign at Jerusalem and set up a Kingdom so excellent, as should be the beginning of a New Age, or World; as Noahs after the Deluge, when all the World of wicked men should submit to him or be destroyed. Others say, That these questions are put of different things, and times, and accordingly Answered, 1. When the Temple should be Destroyed? 2. When Christ would set up his Visible Kingdome. 3. When the World should End? The two first undoubtedly they meant; but by his Coming I do not think they meant, either his sending the Roman Army, nor his Coming at the Day of Resurrection and Judgment; but his Coming to be a Visible Monarch, and Declaring himself King, and Reigning accordingly. And 3. By the End of the World, whether they meant the utter Desolation at last, or the End of the Unreformed, Age, or World, which his Kingdom should overthrow, I am not certain. And though Christ do not presently blame their mis-expectations, his Answers approve them not, but tend to rectifie them.