A26981:464
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.
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, Mat. 16. and he highly praised for confessing him. 3. And he forbade Peter, and those he healed, and the very Devils to confess him. 4. So that properly his Kingdom began at his Exaltation, even his Resurrection, Ascension, and sending down the Spirit. 5. There is another Exposition of some that think he meant, Tho I send you from me now, let not my absence discourage you: I will be with you again, before you have gone over all the Cities; As if he spake of their return to him at their next meeting.
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 Constantines 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, Mat. 16. and he highly praised for confessing him. 3. And he forbad Peter, and those he healed, and the very Devils to confess him. 4. So that properly his Kingdom began at his Exaltation, even his Resurrection, Ascensior, and sending down the Spirit. 5. There is another Exposition of some that think he meant, Tho I send you from me now, let not my absence discourage you: I will be with you again, before you have gone over all the Cities; As if he spake of their return to him at their next meeting.