A26981:1205
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.
7. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
7. When the Midnight cry cometh, and there is no longer stay, all men good and bad, wise and foolish, will be awakened, to attempt some sudden preparation: The worst almost under the sentence of Death will think, what now must I do to be Saved: self-love, and fear, will make them cry for Mercy, with some kind of Repentance, though they be Unconverted.
8. And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil for our lamps are out.
8. And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oyl for our lamps are out.
8. The unprepared unholy Souls, when Death and Judgment comes, would fain then be found in the State of holy Believers, and would die the death of the righteous, and wish for their preparations.