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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.
12. How think ye? if a man have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray. 13. And if so be he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.
12. How think ye? if a man have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray. 13. And if so be he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoyceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.
12, 13. Christ likeneth himself to men that have by unexpected success in recovering the lost, a more sensible joy than for the rest, tho not a higher esteem. And if he so much rejoice in them, how will he take it of those that hate, persecute or tempt them.
12, 13. Christ likeneth himself to men that have by unexpected success in recovering the lost, a more sensible joy than for the rest, tho not a higher esteem. And if he so much rejoyce in them, how will he take it of those that hate, persecute or tempt them.
14. Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.