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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
Introduction: The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
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.
The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
THO it be not known when or by whom all the Books of the New Testament, were gathered and made up into one, nor when or by whom this Title was set before them, and tho for a time some Churches received not the Epistle to the Hebrews, nor that of James; the 2 of Peter, the 2. and 3. of John, that of Jude, or the Revelation. Yet it hath never the less satisfactory evidence of its Truth, for this uncertainty and delay.
I. For As long as we know it is all the word of the Spirit of God, it satisfieth our Faith; whether all be bound up in one Book or in many. And John the Apostle living long after all the rest, it is more than probable that none were received in his time, but by his approbation and consent: and even in the days of the Apostles they gave Testimony to the Writings of one another; so Peter doth of Pauls, and Jude transcribeth much of 2 Peter 2. (telling us that even inspired Apostles disdained not to use and repeat each others Writings; without any guilt of vain repetition or being plagiaries.)
I. For As long as we know it is all the word of the Spirit of God, it satisfieth our Faith; whether all be bound up in one Book or in many. And John the Apostle living long after all the rest, it is more than probable that none were received in his time, but by his approbation and consent: and even in the daies of the Apostles they gave Testimony to the Writings of one another; so Peter doth of Pauls, and Jude transcribeth much of