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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.
2. And when he had fasted forty days, and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered.
2. And when he had fasted forty days, and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
Note, 1. In this Moses was a type of Christ. 2. Fasting and trial by temptation were great preparatives to Christs exercise of his prophetic office: And his Ministers should not be strangers to it; The sensual are never true to Christ. To serve the flesh by the Ministry, by seeking preferment, honour and fleshly ease, and fullness more than mens Salvation, is to serve the Devil, as conquered by his temptations. 3. Hunger and bodily suffering give Satan advantage for many temptations, tho not so dangerously as prosperity, and fleshly pleasures do.
Note, 1. In this Moses was a type of Christ. 2. Fast••g and tryal by temptation were great preparatives to Christs exercise of his prophetick office: And his Ministers should not be strangers to it; The sensual are never true to Christ. To serve the flesh by the Ministry, by seeking preferment, honour and fleshly ease, and fulness more than mens Salvation, is to serve the Devil, as conquered by his temptations. 3. Hunger and bodily suffering give Satan advantage for many temptations, tho not so dangerously as prosperity, and fleshly pleasures do.
3. And when the Tempter came to him, he said, if thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.