A26981:177
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.
1. And seeing the multitude that followed him as admirers and learner• (not yet made full baptized Christians) he went for convenience of hearing, into a Mountain, and there being set, he taught them as followeth.
N. Phrases follow the custom of Countries. And so [he opened his mouth] by that custom was no such absurd phrase as it would be now.
N. Phrases follow the custom of Countreys. And so [he opened his mouth] by that custom was no such absurd phrase as it would be now.
3. Blessed are the poor in Spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
3. Blessed are ye my true Disciples, though you be poor in the world, if you have Spirits suited to your poverty, for you shall have the Kingdom of Heaven for riches.