A26981:58
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.
CHAP. I.
1. THE Book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham.
1. I begin this History of Christ, with the Genealogy or Catalogue of his Ancestors according to the line of Joseph his reputed Legal Father after the flesh, so far as to evince that he was the Son of David and Abraham, the rightful King of the Jews and the promised seed, by their own supputation.
2. Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren, 2. And Judas begat Pharez and Zara of Tamar, and Pharez begat Ezrom, and Ezrom begat Aram, 4. and Aram begat Aminadab, and Aminadab begat Naason, and Naason begat Salmon, 5. and Salmon begat Boaz of Rachab, and Boaz begat Obed of Ruth, and Obed begat Jesse, 6. and Jesse begat David the King, and David the King begat Solomon, of her that had been the Wi•e of Uriah, 7. and Solomon begat Rehoboam, and Rehoboam begat Abia, and Abia begat Asa, 8. and Asa begat Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat begat Joram, and Joram begat Uzziah.