A26981:830
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.
1. AT the same time came the disciples to Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
1. Ambition stirred in them, to debate who should be greatest in Christs Church or Kingdom, next himself.
1. Ambition stirred in them, to debate who should be greatest in Christs Church or Kingdom, next hims•lf.
2, 3. And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, and said, Verily I say to you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
2, 3. Christ set a child before them as a visible answer, and said, Except true conversion give you a new and humble mind, and take you off from ambitious overvaluing earthly pomp and power, that as teachable and obedient Disciples to thee, you may be drawn to set more by heavenly things, you cannot be capable of entering into the heavenly Kingdom, much less of being greatest there: nor are you fit for a place in the Church on earth (much less of power) without covenanting this.