A26981:628
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.
29. But he said, Nay: left while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
28, 29. N. 1. Satan is the sower of Heresy and Vice (whoever be his Ministers.) 2. Ministers and others are more inclined to vindictive severity oft, than Christ is. 3. God forbeareth the hypocrites and wicked (not through in difference but) lest the godly suffer by their destruction. 4. Christ oft denieth the revengeful and severe desires of his servants.
28, 29. N. 1. Satan is the sower of Heresie and Vice (whoever be his Ministers.) 2. Ministers and others are more inclined to vindictive severity oft, than Christ is. 3. God forbeareth the hypocrites and wicked (not through in difference but) lest the godly suffer by their destruction. 4. Christ oft denieth the revengeful and severe desires of his servants.
30. Let them both grow together till the harvest; and in the time of harvest, I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.