A26981:633
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. 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.
33. Another parable spake he unto them, The Kingdom of Heaven is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.