A26981:612
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.
16, 17. How great is Gods mercy to you, that hath given you both teaching and understanding, by which you are made capable of more. I tell you, prophets and righteous men of old, did desire to see and hear what you do, but it was not granted them, but reserved for you.
18, 19. Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. When any one heareth the word of the Kingdom, and understandeth it not; then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart: this is he which receiveth seed by the way side.
18, 19. Note. 1. By not understanding is meant also, Not considering it to take it in: 2. It is said to be sown in his heart, only because it was by the sower so intended, but not as there received.
20. But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it: 21. Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while; for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.