A26981:604
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.
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.
12. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance; but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
12. For here it is true, that to him that hath shall be given, &c. He that hath already the understanding of the rudiments and fundamentals, is thereby capable of receiving and understanding more: one truth openeth the way unto another: But they that have no considerable knowledge, are hardly taught it, and if it be by their wilful neglect or contempt, are like by their guilt and folly to lose all the profitable use even of their reason.