A26981:601
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.
1, 2, 3. N. Christ thought a Ship, or a House, or a Mountain no unmeet place to preach in, and yet avoided not the Temple or Synagogues. 2. They that will have the word with Gods blessing must follow after it. 3. Similitudes were suitable to such learners▪ 4. Preaching is like sowing seed.
4. And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up. 5. Some fell on stony places, where they had not much earth; and forthwith they sprang up, because they had no deepness of earth. 6. And when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had not root, they withered away. 7. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them. 8. But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundred fold, some sixty fold, some thirty fold. 9. Who hath ears to hear let him hear.
4, &c. Note, The first sort was not earthed. The second sort had little earth and rooting▪ the third sort had earth and root, but among thorns which had greater possession, and choked it. Of so great weight is it to understand this difference of hearers, that it is as much as our ears and understandings are worth.
4, &c. Note, The first sort was not earthed. The second sort had little earth and rooting▪ the third sort had earth and root, but among thorns which had greater possession, and choaked it. Of so great weight is it to understand this difference of hearers, that it is as much as our ears and understandings are worth.