A26981:133
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.
16. And Jesus when he was baptised, went up straightway out of the water: and lo, the Heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a Dove, and lighting upon him.
16. As Jesus went up out of the water, John saw the Heavens open to Christ, and the Spirit of God, in some resemblance of a dove (or as a dove doth light on any place) descending on him, (its like in a lucid appearance) and resting on him.
17. And lo, a voice from Heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
17. And with the apparition came a voice from heaven, saying, This is &c. This is my beloved Son the Messiah, sent from Heaven as the Mediator to reveal my will, and to fulfil it, and by his perfect righteousness and sacrifice to reconcile the world to me, and be the propitiation for their sins.
17. And with the apparition came a voice from heaven, saying, This is &c. This is my beloved Son the Messiah, sent from Heaven as the Mediator to reveal my will, and to fulfill it, and by his perfect righteousness and sacrifice to reconcile the world to me, and be the propitiation for their sins.