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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.
Note, 1. It is a great controversy whether by [this Rock] be meant, 1. Christ himself, 2. Or the faith and confession of Christ, 3. Or Peter himself. But no doctrinal controversy dependeth on it: For all three are certain truths. 1. No doubt but primarily Christ is the Rock on which the Church is built. 2. And no doubt but Faith and Confession being the condition of our part in Christ, the Church is so far built thereon. 3. And no doubt but the Apostles are called Foundation stones on which the Church is built, and therefore Peter whose name importeth it, and was a chief speaker among them, as the foreman of a Jury. 2. Though the Powers of Hell may seem to prevail as they did over Christ while he was on the Cross, they are then next an overthrow themselves.
Note, 1. It is a great controversie whether by [this Rock] be meant, 1. Christ himself, 2. Or the faith and confession of Christ, 3. Or Peter himself. But no doctrinal controversie dependeth on it: For all three are certain truths. 1. No doubt but primarily Christ is the Rock on which the Church is built. 2. And no doubt but Faith and Confession being the condition of our part in Christ, the Church is so far built thereon. 3. And no doubt but the Apostles are called Foundation stones on which the Church is built, and therefore Peter whose name importeth it, and was a chief speaker among them, as the foreman of a Jury. 2. Though the Powers of Hell may seem to prevail as they did over Christ while he was on the Cross, they are then next an overthrow themselves.
19. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
19. And hereafter I will make thee a ruling Steward over my Church as it is Gods Kingdom on earth, preparatory to the Heavenly Kingdom of Glory; and the due administration of thy office by these Keys of Power, shall be the ordinary way to Heaven, and a forerunner of the final Justification of the Faithful, and of the final condemnation of the Impenitent and ungodly, whom by my doctrine and the due application of it, thou bindest over to my judgment.