A26981:406
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.
15. The Messiah is the messenger of the greatest joy: It is a most joyful Marriage feast that I call them to; and that is not the season of •••ng and mourning: But when I am taken from them, then fasting and patience in a malicious world, will be more seasonable.
15. The Messiah is the mess••ger of the greatest joy: It is a most joyful Marriage feast that I call them to; and that is not the season of •••ng and mourning: But when I am taken from them, then fasting and patience in a malicious world, will be more seasonable.
16. No man putteth a piece of new cloth into an old garment; for that which is put in to fill it up, taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. 17. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
16. No man putteth a piece of new cloath into an old garment; for that which is put in to fill it up, taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. 17. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
16, 17. As a piece of new cloth put on a breach in an old worn garment, will but make it wider; and new wine put into old bottles will but break them and be spilt: so if young Disciples should be put upon Religious exercises unsuitable to their condition, and unseasonable, it would do them hurt: And that which would hurt them by reason of their incapacity, is not to be put upon them.