A26981:512
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.
11. There hath not been a greater than John before him: as being nearest the Kingdom of the Messiah: But yet, the least of my Ministers in this my Kingdom, is greater than he, and shall have more eminent gifts of the Spirit, as well as a more excellent office and work; so far shall my Kingdom begun after my Ascension, excel all ages that were before it.
11. There hath not been a greater than John before him: as being nearest the Kingdom of the Messiah: But yet, the least of my Ministers in this my Kingdom, is greater than he, and shall have more eminent gifts of the Spirit, as well as a more excellent office and work; so far shall my Kingdom begun after my Ascension, excell all ages that were before it.
12. And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
12. And as the people crowded to John in the wilderness, and now as you see flock after me, so since John began to preach, I may say, that these multitudes of inferior people, crowd as it were into the Kingdom of Heaven, and will not lose it, while it is neglected by the higher sort.
12. And as the people crowded to John in the wilderness, and now as you see flock after me, so since John began to preach, I may say, that these multitud•s of inferiour people, croud as it were into the Kingdom of Heaven, and will not lose it, while it is neglected by the higher sort.