A26981:517
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.
16. But whereto shall I liken this generation? It is like to children sitting in the Market, and calling to their fellows; 17. We have piped to you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not lamented.
16, 17. But the unbelievers of this generation, do as children in their games complain of one another; you will neither dance when we pipe, nor lament when we mourn to you; you are cross to us whatever game we play.
18. For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a Devil. 19. The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a man gluttonous, and a wine bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
18, 19. John lived austerely on Locusts and wild-honey: and they took him for a possessed mad-man: And of me that exercise no such unusual austerity of diet, but mere temperance, they say, I am a gluttonous man, and a lover of wine, No innocency will suffice to escape the false censures of Malignants: But the sons of Wisdom will justify it.