A26981:609
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.
13, &c. I speak to them in similitudes, as children must be first taught to spell, because tho they have understanding, eyes and ears, they are so ignorant that they understand not even what eyes and ears and reason tell them. As the Prophet Isaiah saith, &c. This people by wilful neglect of knowledge are such, as will not understand even what they hear and see: For their hearts are stupefied, and their understanding so dull, and they have so sinfully shut their own eyes, for want of care and love to truth, that thus they keep out the knowledge of the Gospel, and shut out my offered grace, which else would convince and convert them, and they would be healed.
13, &c. I speak to them in similitudes, as children must be first taught to spell, because tho they have understanding, eyes and ears, they are so ignorant that they understand not even what eyes and ears and reason tell them. As the Prophet Isaiah saith, &c. This people by wilful neglect of knowledge are such, as will not understand even what they hear and see: For their hearts are stupifyed, and their understanding so dull, and they have so sinfully shut their own eyes, for want of care and love to truth, that thus they keep out the knowledge of the Gospel, and shut out my offered grace, which else would convince and convert them, and they would be healed.
Note, 1. That the way of Parables is not mentioned as an obscure way to hide the truth: but as a low familiar way, as ignorant carnal men are capable of. 2. The Prophecy, nor Christ, means not that its Gods intent to hide the truth lest it convert men, but that this is the effect and event of their own wilful neglect, whereby their conversion is as effectually hindered, as if they did it purposely, lest they should be converted.
Note, 1. That the way of Parables is not mentioned as an obscure way to hide the truth: but as a low familiar way, as ignorant carnal men are capable of. 2. The Prophecy, nor Christ, means not that its Gods intent to hide the truth lest it convert men, but that this is the effect and event of their own wilfull neglect, whereby their conversion is as effectually hindred, as if they did it purposely, lest they should be converted.