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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.
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.
III. Whoever first gave this title to the whole Book (The New Testament, or Covenant, &c.) it's of no great moment to know: It was [The New Testament] before it was so entitled as one Volume; But the Church hath by continual owning this Title, showed that they have received all these Books as Gods word and the whole New Testament, and that no more are to be received as such.
III. Whoever first gave this title to the whole Book (The New Testament, or Covenant, &c.) it's of no great moment to know: It was [The New Testament] before it was so entitled as one Volume; But the Church hath by continual owning this Title, shewed that they have received all these Books as Gods word and the whole New Testament, and that no more are to be received as such.
The Word [Greek or Hebrew] (of which Grotius in his preface hath spoken at large) signifieth indeed, Gods statute Law concerning Mans Duty and Salvation, or Gods constituted and proposed terms of Life. And tho [Greek or Hebrew] more strictly signify usually a Mutual Covenant; this doth but imply the consent of Man to the Law or terms of God. It is the same thing that is called a Law and a Covenant in several respects. As God enacts it, and promulgated it, before mans Consent, it is a Law, and a conditional deed of Gift, and Testament; and an offered Covenant in several respects. When man consents it is a Law accepted, a gift and Testament accepted, and a mutual actual Covenant, the Law hath its introductive History and Doctrine, its precepts prohibitions, promises, and threats; And the Covenant hath the same parts only denominated from mutual consent. But because there are Laws of more or less rigour, and of various tenors; it is the Law of Faith or Grace which is the Covenant, Testament, and Gospel, which is now before us denominated from the Donative and Promissory parts, though precept and threatening be included.