A26981:674
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. Note, 1. The Lord of Life that came in flesh to save the world, was fain to fly for his life into a wilderness from the face of men, yea of the eminent members of the Jewish Church. 2. It is not cowardice, or unlawful to fly from persecutors, till we have some special call to suffer.
13. Note, 1. The Lord of Life that came in flesh to save the world, was fain to fly for his life into a wilderness from the face of men, yea of the eminent members of the Jewish Church. 2. It is not cowardize, or unlawfull to fly from persecutors, till we have some special call to suffer.
14. And Jesus went forth and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion towards them, and he healed their sick.
14. Note, Those that follow Christ, and seek to him, are liker to find his compassion than those that drive him away.
15. And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals. 16. But Jesus said to them, They need not depart, give ye them to eat. 17. And they say to him, We have here but five loaves and two fishes. 18. He said, Bring them hither to me. 19. And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves and two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.