...spiritual kingdom. Insomuch, that the Baptist said to the Pharisees, as well as to the Sadducees, " O generation of vipers, who hath warned " you to flee...the wrath to come ? Bring " forth therefore fruits meet for repentance : and " think not to say within yourselves, We have " Abraham to our father1."...

...ii. 7. " But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees, come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee...the wrath to come ? Bring forth, therefore, fruits meet for repentance. And think not to say within yourselves, we have Abraham to our father ; for 1...

...penitents ; for, " when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come ? bring forth fruits meet for repentance." We may deduce from this passage a most important lesson. We may learn...

...of repentance; that is, Since you have been warned, bring forth such good works as become a sincere repentance •> and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father : for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham, ,Q. And now also...

...be baptized of him, O * generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come ? 8 drink, and we are able, indicating a difficulty, preclude...baptized with the baptism of blood, Acts xii. 1, 2 I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. 9 And now also...

...might be raised to a conceit of some extraordinary matter, both in his person and message. III. 7, 8 O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee...from the wrath to come ? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance : O ye Pharisees and Saducees, who are rather venomous serpents than men, so full...

...baptized by him, " O ofFspringf of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the 8 anger winch is about to come ? Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance ; and begin not to say within yourselves, ' Abraham isJ our father:' for I say unto you, that of these stones God is able to raise up 9 children...

...their sins. But when he saw many of the Pharisees1 and Sadduces come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee...within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. And now also the...

...addressed himself to those who had come to his baptism, and who had confessed their sins in Jordan. " O generation of vipers, who hath " warned you to flee from the wrath to come ? " Bring forth fruits meet for repentance." By which he, plainly, insinuated that without these fruits, their repentance...

...baptized by him, " O offspring! of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the 8 anger which is about to come ? Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance ; and begin not to say within yourselves, ' Abraham isf our father :' for I say unto you, that of these stones God is able to raise up 9 children...