A26981:1371
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. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
5. N. 1. Sinners gain will at last be like a hot iron, too hot to hold: Despair shall force restitution when true repentance will not do it. This will be all the comfort of unlawful gain at last. 2. That Judas strangled himself, and that he fell headlong and his bowels burst out, are both certain: But how he was strangled, whether by mere terror, or by a cord, and how he burst, whether by mere suffocation, or by the fall, and how he fell, whether by precipitation, or by breaking of the cord, &c. are things uncertain.
6. And the chief Priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
6. And the chief Priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of bloud.