A26981:603
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. 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.
10, 11. And the disciples came and said to him, Why speakest thou to them in parables? He answered and said to them, Because it is given to you, to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven; but to them it is not given.
10, 11. Because tho God hath given you some knowledge already of the mysteries of the Kingdom of the Messiah, these men are ignorant like children, and must be taught by familiar similitudes accordingly, being yet uncapable of other manner of teaching.