A26981:619
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.
23. But he that received seed into the good ground, is he that heareth the word and understandeth it, which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth some an hundred fold, some sixty, some thirty.
23. Note, Qu. What is it that makes the ground called Good before the receiving of the word? Answ. 1. There was a certain degree of faith which was a state of Salvation before Christ was personally known or preached as incarnate: These persons that had this, were good ground, ready to hear the Gospel when it was preached: Those that truly repented according to Johns Preaching, were prepared to receive Christ. 2. And those that faithfully obey that Light of Truth already revealed to them, desiring more, are better prepared for more, than other men.
24. Another parable put he forth to them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a man that sowed good seed in his field. 25. But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
24, 25. Another similitude he used, to show how the Church will be corrupted with Heresies and vices.