A26981:606
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. 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.
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 wilfull neglect or contempt, are like by their guilt and folly to lose all the profitable use even of their reason.
13. Therefore I speak to them in parables, because they seeing see not, hearing they ⟨image 21⟩hear not, neither do they understand. 14. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and not understand, and seeing, ye shall see, and shall not perceive. 15. For this peoples heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.