A26981:518
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, 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.
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 justifie it.