A26981:552
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.
13. Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thy hand: and he stretched it forth, and it was restored whole like as the other.
14. Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.
13, 14. Note, That it is part of the Religion of Hypocrites, to destroy men for doing the greatest good, against their Laws.
15. But when Jesus heard it, he withdrew himself from thence, and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all: 16. And charged them that they should not make him known.
15, 16. Note, 1. It is a duty to avoid the hands of Murderers and Persecutors, unless when our sufferings are like to do more good than our lives. 2. Christ forbid them making him known, partly to avoid the envy and rage of persecutors, and partly because the time was not yet come, till all his works set together with his Resurrection and Spirit, should make up a full proof.