A26981:49
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.
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 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.)
II. And that the few books doubted of by some were commonly afterwards received, tends more to the confirming than the shaking of our belief of their Authority: certainty after doubt is the most confirmed certainty. It must needs be some time before all the Churches to whom the several Epistles were written, could produce and Communicate them by convincing proof to all the rest And yet we must know, that the Epistles to particular Churches were sent to them as to members of the Church Universal, and they were obliged to communicate them to others: so that we must not take them as private Letters.