...forth fruit, then appeared the tares also, tsV. Ver. 47. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind. ' Rev. xviii. 2. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is...

...polished and barbarous, Jews and Heathens. And with allusion to the same event, he compares the Church to a net that was cast into the Sea and gathered of every kind*. When this commission was executed, that is, when men of all nations, like the various kinds of beasts,...

...1'orth fruit, then appeared the tares also, t3"c. Ver. 47. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind. I Rev. xviii. 2. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Bal>ylon the great is fallen, is...

...mustard-seed, the least of all seeds, but becomes a tree : to leaven, by which a large lump is leavened : to a net, that was cast into the' sea, and gathered of every kind. And, explaining the parable of the tares, our Lord says, ver.' 37, 38. " He that soweth the good seed...

...and sometimes God's dealing with men under the Gospel state; as", The kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind ; that is, in the Gospel state, and at the publishing Christ the Messiah, many, both good and bad,...

...I ask, what is the meaning of that declaration of Christ, that " the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind." (n) But as I am not fond of allegorical trifling, I answer, that when the apostles were appointed to...

...The kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into thé sea, and gathered of every kind: 48 Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered thé good into vessels, but cast thé bad away. 49 So shall it be at thé end of thé world : thé...

...Matt. xiii. 47 — 50, " Again, the kingdom of heaven is like, (uot is likened by false teachers) unto a net that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind : which when it was full, they drew to the shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall it be...

...of the net, (Matt. xiii. 47.) " The kingdom of heaven (the dispensation of the gospel) is like unto a net that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind, good and bad:" and agreeably to another parable, in which the tares and the wheat are represented as...

...xii. 23. 1 Matt. xviji. 7. And when Christ likens his kingdom to " tares sowed among the wheat0;" to "a net *' that was cast into the sea, and gathered of " every kind?;" to "a wedding filled with " guests both good and bad^;" shall we confound these descriptions, marked...