A26981:942
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.
9. And when they came that were hired at the Eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. 10. And when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more, and they likewise received every man a penny. 11. And when they had received it, they murmured against the good man of the house. 12. Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal with us, who have born the burden and heat of the day.
9. And when they came that were hired at the Eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. 10. And when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more, and they likewise received every man a penny. 11. And when they had received it, they murmured against the good man of the house. 12. Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal with us, who have born the burder and heat of the day.
9.10.11.12. He made no difference in their Wages for the Time of their Work: But he will make difference for the Work it self: They that are called, near the end of the World, shall have as much, as those that heard Christ Preach: And those that are Converted in their Age, if they be more Holy, than those that began in Youth, will be more Happy. 2. This Parable meaneth not, that our Reward is Wages for the value of our Work as beneficial to God, in Commutative Justice; but only speaketh of the proportion. 3. Nor doth it imply, That any in Heaven will murmur at other mens Salvation, but that the Jewish Disciples were yet inclined to grudge, that the Gentiles were equalled with them. And it is to cure such envy now.
13.14. But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong; didst thou not agree with me for a penny. Take that thine is and go thy way: I will give to this last, even as unto thee: 15. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Is thine eye evil because I am good?