A26981:593
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.
43. When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, ⟨image 20⟩seeking rest, and finding none. 44. Then he saith, I will return into my house, from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished: 45. Then goeth he and taketh with him seven other spirits, more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first: even so shall it be also to this wicked generation.
43. &c. The case of this wicked generation is like that of a man that had the Devil cast out of him, but being unthankful, and continuing in his sin, the Devil (by Gods permission) possesseth him again, and bringeth with him seven worse spirits, and so his end is worse than he was before he was delivered: So I have preached the Gospel, and cast out Devils in this land; but being rejected by the obstinate unbelievers, the Devil will get a worse possession of them than that from which I did eject him, and they shall be cut off for their unbelief.
46, 47. While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him: Then one said to him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee: 48. But he answered and said to him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?