A26981:71
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.
18. Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: when as his Mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with Child of the Holy Ghost.
18. Note the Holy Ghost did miraculously cause Her Conception, without a humane Father.
19. Then her husband Joseph, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.
19. Then her husband Jo•eph, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
19. Joseph being a good man, averse to hurtfulness, ⟨image 6⟩thought rather to hide all by putting her privily away, than to expose her to the shame and punishment due by the Law, to such as he thought her to be.