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but he replied, have ye never read what David, and the rest of the company did, when they were press'd with hunger?

how he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar, who was afterwards high-priest, and did eat the shew-bread, giving some of it likewise to the company, though the law allow'd no body to eat of it but the priests.

and he ask'd them, is it allowed to do good, or to do mischief on the sabbath-days? to save life, or to kill? but they were very silent.

But Jesus retired with his disciples towards the sea: where a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea,

but he strictly charged them, not to make him known.

but calling them to him, he said by way of similitude, how can satan dispossess satan?

so if satan rise up in opposition to his own interest, his power cannot subsist, but must entirely cease.

but he that shall blaspheme against the holy Ghost, shall never be pardoned, but shall be obnoxious to eternal punishment.

He began again to teach by the sea-side: but there was so great a crowd gathered about him, that he was oblig'd to go into a ship, where he sat down, and stay'd on board while the people stood on the shore.

but when the sun was up, it was scorched, and for want of root, withered away.

but part of it fell on good ground, which sprang up, and grew so fruitful, that some grains produced thirty, others sixty, and some an hundred.

he answered, you are admitted into the secret of the gospel-dispensation: but to unbelievers every thing is couch'd in parables; because,

but if, said he, you don't comprehend this easy parable, how can ye understand any of the rest?

they who receiv'd seed by the wayside, are those in whom the word is sown, who no sooner have heard it, but satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.

but having no root at the bottom, they are only occasional professors, for if they meet with any trouble or persecution upon account of the word, immediately they revolt.

but the cares of this life, the deceitful love of riches, and a crowd of different passions, stifle the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

for there is nothing conceal'd but what shall be made manifest: nor was any thing kept secret, but in order to be divulged.

for he that makes use of what he has shall have more, but he that does not, shall be stript of what he has.

but as soon as the fruit is ripe, the sickle is applied, because the harvest is come.

but after it is sown, it grows up, and becometh larger than other plants of the pulse kind, and shooteth out its branches so high, that the fowls of the air may lodge under its shadow.