A26981:388
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, 2, That is, this disease which is the punishment of thy sin is remitted, and thou shalt be healed.
3. And behold, certain of the Scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth. 4. And Jesus knowing their thoughts, said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts? 5. For whether is it easier to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee, or to say, Arise and walk.
3, 4, 5. That is, What is Forgiving the sin but forgiving the punishment of it? And is one any harder than the other when it is the same thing.
6. But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, Then saith he to the sick of the palsy, Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thy house. 7. And he arose and departed to his house.
6. But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, Then saith he to the sick of the palsie, Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thy house. 7. And he arose and departed to his house.