A26981:1202
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. Note, The Lamp, and the Vessel of Oil signify, Preparation by sudden act, and Preparation by a stated habit: Wise, and Foolish, Good, and Bad, may sleep upon delay; and keep not up still the same lively Activity: But the Godly have still the holy Nature and Habits.
5. Note, The Lamp, and the Vessel of Oyl signifie, Preparation by sudden act, and Preparation by a stated habit: Wise, and Foolish, Good, and Bad, may sleep upon delay; and keep not up still the same lively Activity: But the Godly have still the holy Nature and Habits.
6. And at mid-night there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh, Go ye out to meet him.
6. And at mid-night there was a cry made, Behold, the bridgroom cometh, Go ye out to meet him.
6. And when they are deepest in security, or forgetfulness, and minding Worldly things, they suddenly hear that Christ by Death or Judgment is coming; He is just at hand: There's no more delay, you must presently come away to Judgment, and to be saved if you are his.