A26981:146
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.
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.
5. Then the Devil taketh him up into the holy City, and setteth him on a Pinnacle of the Temple. 6. And saith to him, if thou be the Son of God, cast they self down: for it is written, he shall give his Angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash they foot against a stone.
5.6. Then the Devil permitted by God, carried the body of Christ through the air, and set him on the battlements or some high place on the Temple; and said, cast they self down. &c.
5.6. Then the Devil permitted by God, carryed the body of Christ through the air, and set him on the battlements or some high place on the Temple; and said, cast they self down. &c.