A26981:616
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.
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.
22. He also that received seed among the thorns, is he that heareth the word; and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
22. He also that received seed among the thorns, is he that heareth the word; and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches choak the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
22. That is, He loveth the wealth and prosperity of this world more than the Word, and so that which he most loveth doth prevail against the other, and he liveth more to the world than unto God; and for the world will forsake his duty, and Christ himself in strong temptations.