A26981:367
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.
18, 19, 20. N. That when Christ saw a man desirous to follow him, either for worldly ends, and with a mind not loosed from worldly interest, he trieth him, and turneth him off by undeceiving him.
21. And another of his disciples faith to him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. 22. But Jesus said to him, Follow ⟨image 15⟩me, and let the dead bury their dead.
21, 22. Another whom Christ saw better resolved and qualified, he would not permit so much as to go home to bury his Father, but using a proverbial speech, saith, Let the dead bury their dead; that is, If thou be devoted to me, follow me, and my service, for this is now thy greatest business, to which burying thy Father must not be preferred: Others that are not engaged as thou art, may bury thy Father: If they would not, it were better he were unburied, than thou should desert or neglect me and my service.