A26981:1270
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.
6, &c. 1. It being usual at great feasts in the Country to anoint, she signified by this her great love and honour to Christ. 2. Judas was the chief murmurer, but perhaps some others might object.
10. When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the Woman? for she hath wrought a good work on me. 11. For ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always. 12. For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body▪ she did it to my burial.
10, &c. N. Tho works of Charity to the poor are highly esteemed by Christ, and preferred before many rites and smaller matters, yet some works of piety must be preferred before them. And that duty may in its season be greater, which is not so at another time.
13. Verily I say to you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole World, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.