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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
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.
2, 3. Note, It is doubtful whether (John being in Prison and not seeing Jesus) the meaning be, Art thou the same Jesus that I baptized, &c. Or, (as is more likely) that he sent his Disciples that they might be convinced by more than John's testimony.
4. Jesus answered and said to them, Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see. 5. The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. 6. And blessed is he whoever shall not be offended in me.
4. Jesus answered and said to them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see. 5. The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. 6. And blessed is he whoever shall not be offended in me.
4, 5, 6. It is not my bare word but my works that shall answer you: it is by the fruit that the tree must be known: The miraculous works of Divine Power are done, and the works of love to mens bodies, and the Gospel of Salvation is preached for their Souls. And these being Gods works, are Gods testimony what I am. And yet the meanness of my appearance, and my contempt and suffering from men, will be to many, a stumbling block, and make the work of believing difficult, and blessed are they that believe notwithstanding all these difficulties.