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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.
4. He was clothed with Haircloth, bound to him with a leather girdle, and fed on what the wilderness afforded, which was Locusts (which some think were an Herb so called, but most a sort of flies like great Grasshoppers that devour all green things,) and wild Honey.
4. He was cloathed with Haircloth, bound to him with a leather girdle, and fed on what the wilderness afforded, which was Locusts (which some think were an Herb so called, but most a sort of flies like great Grashoppers that devour all green things,) and wild Hony.
Note, Tho the Fryers and Hermits by superstitious overvaluing such austerity, have tempted others to despise them, yet God approved of Johns signification of his contempt of the world and fleshly pleasures by such abasing of the flesh. And other mens superstition or Hypocrisy, will not excuse mens superfluity, or accuse mortification.
Note, Tho the Fryers and Hermits by superstitious overvaluing such austerity, have tempted others to despise them, yet God approved of Johns signification of his contempt of the world and fleshly pleasures by such abasing of the flesh. And other mens superstition or Hypocrisie, will not excuse mens superfluity, or accuse mortification.
5. Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the Region round Jordan. 6. And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.