A26981:632
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.
31. Another parable put he forth to them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard-seed, which a man took and sowed in his field, 32. Which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
31. As a grain of Mustard-seed is one of the smallest sort of seeds, and yet becometh a plant like a tree, &c. So the Kingdom of the Messiah beginneth in a few poor men, but shall become a Kingdom that shall flourish in the World, so that worldly men shall obtrude into it for worldly ends, and desire the protection of Christian Governors.
31. As a grain of Mustard-seed is one of the smallest sort of seeds, and yet becometh a plant like a tree, &c. So the Kingdom of the Messiah beginneth in a few poor men, but shall become a Kingdom that shall flourish in the World, so that worldly men shall obtrude into it for worldly ends, and desire the protection of Christian Governours.
Note, That the Mustard-plant was much greater in Judea than it is with us.