A26981:748
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.
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.
17. It is a point of so great importance to Sanctification, Justification, and Salvation, verily to believe me to be the Christ and Saviour, that this faith is the evidence and means of thy blessedness: It is not mere man that hath revealed this so as to make thee a true believer, but my heavenly Father, by my works and word, and by his grace.
18. And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.