A26981:651
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.
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.
Note, 1. It is not to be wondered at, that the visible Church hath good and bad. 2. Yet this is not the design of the Gospel, which is fitted to make all good, but by the intrusion of Hypocrites. Nor is it an excuse for the neglect of discipline, and the just discrimination of the good and bad.
49. So shall it be at the end of the world, The angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just. 50. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.