A26981:1335
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.
53. Note, 1. Angels are ready to serve Christ, at his desire. 2. It should stop our impatient thoughts of rash, and unlawful self-defence, to think, that God can otherwise deliver us.
54. But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
54. N. We must not strive against Events which we foreknow will come to pass.
55. In the same hour, said Jesus to the multitude, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves to take me? I sate daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
55. Why did you not take me in the Temple, but thus in the Night like a Thief.