A26981:508
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.
7, 8, 9. Jesus took this occasion to describe John to the people; saying, What went you to John in the Wilderness to see? not a toy like a shaken Reed? Nor yet a pompous Gallant in gay clothes? such be not in Wildernesses but in Kings houses: you'll say A Prophet? Yes, and greater than any foregoing Prophets; A nearer Messenger of the Kingdom of God.
7, 8, 9. Jesus took this occasion to describe John to the people; saying, What went you to John in the Wilderness to see? not a toy like a shaken Reed? Nor yet a pompous Gallant in gay cloaths? such be not in Wildernesses but in Kings houses: you'l say A Prophet? Yes, and greater than any foregoing Prophets; A nearer Messenger of the Kingdom of God.
10. For this is he of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
10. For this is the Harbinger of the Messiah, promised by other Prophets.