A26981:117
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.
5. So glad were the People to hear that the Kingdom of the Messiah was at hand, that they all flocked to him to be baptized, professing repentance, that they might be prepared for the Kingdom.
5. So glad were the People to hear that the Kingdom of the Messiah was at hand, that they all flockt to him to be baptized, professing repentance, that they might be prepared for the Kingdom.
Note, 1. We grant that Baptism then was by washing the whole Body: And did not the differences of our cold country as to that hot one, teach us to remember (I will have mercy and not sacrifice) it should be so here. 2. Tho many say Johns baptism and Christs were all one, its easy to prove that were any now baptized but with John's baptism, he ought to be baptized again, in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, on the profession of many Articles of the Creed which John required not.
Note, 1. We grant that Baptism then was by washing the whole Body: And did not the differences of our cold country as to that hot one, teach us to remember (I will have mercy and not sacrifice) it should be so here. 2. Tho many say Johns baptism and Christs were all one, its easie to prove that were any now baptized but with John's baptism, he ought to be baptized again, in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, on the profession of many Articles of the Creed which John required not.
7. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his Baptism, he said to them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come. 8. Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance.