A26981:922
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.
23.24. The difficulty of a Rich Man's being a sound Christian and Saved is great, that I may express it by the common Proverb, of a Camels going through a Needles Eye.
25. When his Disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? 26. But Jesus beheld them, and said to them, With men this is impossible, but with God, all things are possible.
25.26. This amazing the Disciples, he said, So naturally and strongly do men love this World, and its Prosperity, and so hardly do they believe, and love the unseen Heavenly Felicity, that it is impossible for mere fleshly Man, to make so great a change upon the heart; But the Grace of Almighty God, can, and will do it.
25.26. This amazing the Disciples, he said, So naturally and strongly do men love this World, and its Prosperity, and so hardly do they believe, and love the unseen Heavenly Felicity, that it is impossible for meer fleshly Man, to make so great a change upon the heart; But the Grace of Almighty God, can, and will do it.