A26981:746
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.
14. Note, 1. Men were convinced that he was of God, (that is, the multitude, but not the Rulers:) But they thought he was not the Messiah, but some great Prophets Soul in a new body. 2. By this it is evident that the multitude then believed the immortality of the Soul: else they could not think that those Souls came into other Bodies.
15, 16. He saith to them, But whom say ye that I am. And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the son of the living God.
15, 16. Note, 1. It was meet that those that were to preach Christ to others should be brought to an open confession of him themselves. 2. Its like the rest believed as Peter tho he only spake.
17. And Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed art thou Simon Bar-Jonah; for flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven.
17. And Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed art thou Simon Bar-Jonah; for flesh and bloud hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven.