A26981:408
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.
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.
N. What their bottles were then made of that would not hold new wine when they were old, is uncertain. But its likely they were made of the skins of Goats, or such creatures.
18. While he spake these things to them, behold, there came a certain Ruler and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead; but come and lay thy hand on her, and she shall live.
18. A Ruler of one of their lesser Judicatures or Consistories came, &c.