A26981:901
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.
11. But he said to them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.
11. He said, Men must not avoid a lesser evil by a greater: some mens temperament, and some mens condition in the world, make Marriage necessary to them. All have not the gift of chastity.
12. For there are some Eunuchs which were so born from their mothers womb; and there are some Eunuchs which were made Eunuchs of men: And there be Eunuchs which have made themselves Eunuchs for the kingdom of heavens sake: He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
12. There are some unapt for congress with Women, who were born so: And some are made so by men, by castration: And some have made themselves such, that they might the better avoid all venereous temptations. He that is able to live in a continent single life, without greater hurt, let him do it; but all cannot.