A26981:892
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.
4. &c. Look to the original and you shall find that God made them one Male and one Female, and by the ⟨image 28⟩Law of Conjugality, united them for procreation and converse as into One; the Relative Union being likened to a natural union of the parts of one body: and that so nearly, that on this account Father and Mother were to be left to a closer union with a wife. Therefore do not you separate that which God hath so nearly united.
7. They say to him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away.
7. They thought to take advantage by this against him, as contradicting Moses Law, and said, &c.
8. He saith to them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.