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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.
3. The Son of God can do what he will: feed thy self now by miracle.
Note, 1. Whether the Devil thought by this to tempt him to doubt, whether he were the son of God, or only as supposing it to draw him to sin, by obeying him, is uncertain. 2. Satan cannot tempt us when he will, but when God permitteth him. 3. His design was to obscure Christs God-head and glory.
4. But he answered and said, it is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by ever word which proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
4. Note, 1. Christ himself was not above making use of Gods written word. 2. It is by this word that the tempter must be confuted and overcome. 3. It is by Gods will that our food doth nourish us, and his will and Love is more necessary to us than our food.