A26981:641
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.
37. He answered and said to them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man: 38. The field is the world, the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one: 39. The enemy that sowed them, is the devil, the harvest is the end of the world: and the reapers are the angels.
37, &c. It is Christ that soweth the good seed, by Preaching the Gospel and planting the Churches by himself and his servants. The World is the first object of the Gospel preached, and out of which believers are gathered: The good seed (as sown is the Gospel, but) as springing up in fruit, are the faithful, who are properly the members of the Church of Christ: The Tares (as sown are evil doctrines and temptations, but) as sprung up in fruit are the Children of the Devil, who is the father of wickedness; The enemy of God and goodness and man that sowed them, by himself and his servants, signifieth the Devil: the time of harvest is, the end of this world, even the day of judgment: The reapers or executioners are the Angels.
40. As therefore the tares are gathered and burnt in the fire, so shall it be in the end of this world: 41. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity. 42. And shall cast them into a furnace of fire, there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.