A26981:1192
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.
CHAP. XXV.
1. Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened to ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
1. THen shall the kingdom of heaven be likened to ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
1. When Christ cometh to Judgment, (either on the Jews as aforesaid, or on any with Death; or on all, at the last Day,) the Administration of his Kingly Government, towards the Ready, and Unready may be illustrated by this similitude, of Ten Virgins, &c.
Note, The Custom of the Jews was, to make very Pompous Feasts, at Weddings, and many Virgins used to go to the Brides House, and thence with hand Lamps to go, and attend her to the Wedding.