A26981:636
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.
33. As a little leaven doth leaven a great quantity of meal, so the Gospel shall convert a few at first where it comes, and afterward by the help of those few, whole Towns and Countries shall turn Christians, and own the Truth.
34. All these things spake Jesus to the multitude in parables, and without a parable spake he not to them: 35. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
34, 35. Thus Jesus taught them only by Similitudes, as it is written, &c. I will utter great and excellent Mysteries, which former ages have not known, and that by the way of familiar Similitudes.
36. Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house, and his disciples came to him, saying, Declare to us the parable of the tares of the field