A26981:614
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.
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.
20, 21. Note, That the reason why such fall away, was the want of rooting of the word, is plain. But whether such should be saved if they had died before they fell away, is a controversy too long to be here handled, and not so needful as some think.
20, 21. Note, That the reason why such fall away, was the want of rooting of the word, is plain. But whether such should be saved if they had died before they fell away, is a controversie too long to be here handled, and not so needful as some think.