A26981:904
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. 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.
13. Then there were brought to him little children, that he should put his hands on them and pray, and the disciples rebuked them. 14. But Jesus said, suffer little children and forbid them not to come to me; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
13, 14. Some brought their children to him that he would lay his hands on them and bless them according to their infant capacity: and the Disciples chid them away, thinking such company below him: But Jesus said, Hinder them not, and forbid not little children to come or be brought to me: For I tell you, that it is not the self-conceitedly wise, but those that are as ready to learn and be ruled as such children are, that yet set not their wit and will against instruction, but are as it were beginning the world, that will make up the Christian Church.