A26981:649
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.
45. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like to a merchant man seeking goodly pearls: 46. Who when he had found one of great price, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.
45. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like to a merchant man seeking goodly pearls: 46. Who when he had found one of geat price, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.
45, 46. Note, He that findeth not by faith, enough in the love of God and heavenly glory, and in Christ the way thereto, to make him consent sincerely and practically to sell or part with all the world rather than lose it, is not capable of a just title to it, nor shall obtain it.
47. Again the kingdom of heaven is like a net which was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: 48. Which when it was full, they drew to the shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.
47, 48. The Church is gathered as men by casting a net into the Sea gather fishes, good and bad: And at the day of judgment, Christ will take the good to heaven, and cast away the bad to hell.