A26981:461
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.
22. But he that overcometh all these trials, and holds out in faith and patience to the end, shall be saved.
23. But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: For verily I say to you, you shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
23. But it is your duty so far to preserve your selves for further service, as to flee from Persecutors, to go Preach elsewhere (so it be not when you have any greater obligation to the contrary than your lives be worth.) And I tell you, you shall not have gone over all the Cities of Israel in the performance of this work that I lay upon you, till they shall see the Messiah in his own person, openly owning his Office, and preaching to them as such himself.
N. This hard Text is variously expounded: 1. Some say, that the Romans destruction of Jerusalem is Christ's coming here meant. 2. Others say, that it is his coming by Constantine's Conversion to set up Christianity in power and honour, and that the meaning is, that the Cities of Judea shall not be all converted till then. 3. Others say it is Christ's coming to Judgment; or, say others, to call the Jews at his personal Reign, till when they will not be generally converted. 4. It seems to me more probable that it is own open declaring himself to be the Christ, and that his Kingdom is come: For, 1. he yet preached but much like John, that the Kingdom of God (the Messiah) is at hand. 2. And he did not yet bring his own Disciples to confess it, it being after extorted from Peter,