A26981:679
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.
20. And they did all eat, and were filled, and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. 21. And they that had eaten, were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
20, 21. Note, 1. This Miracle was done before five thousand Witnesses and more, that there might be no suspicion of deceit, or misreport. 2. He that was Lord of all and could feed by Miracle, yet would not have the fragments lost.
22. And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away. 23. And when he had sent the multitude away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray.
22, 23. Note, Christ used to pray alone, because his case so differed from all mens in the world, (having no sin, &c.) that the same prayers would not suit the case of others which were fit for him.