{"passage":["Matthew 13:24"],"results":[{"document":"dort1619","id":"3.9","url":"/api/v1/documents/dort1619/paragraphs/3.9","segments":[{"text":"It is not the fault of the gospel, nor of Christ offered therein, nor of God, who calls men by the gospel, and confers upon them various gifts, that those who are called by the ministry of the word, refuse to come, and be converted: the fault lies in themselves; some of whom when called, regardless of their danger, reject the word of life; others, though they receive it, suffer it not to make a lasting impression on their heart; therefore, their joy, arising only from a temporary faith, soon vanishes, and they fall away; while others choke the seed of the word by perplexing cares, and the pleasures of this world, and produce no fruit.—This our Saviour teaches in the parable of the sower.","proofs":["Matthew 13"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646","id":"25.5","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646/paragraphs/25.5","segments":[{"text":"The purest Churches under Heaven are subject both to mixture, and error:","proofs":["Matthew 13:24–30"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646-modernized","id":"25.5","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646-modernized/paragraphs/25.5","segments":[{"text":"The purest Churches under Heaven are subject both to mixture, and error:","proofs":["Matthew 13:24–30"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"25","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/25","segments":[{"text":"(1) Because, the visible Church, is compared to a Garner, in which there is not only Wheat, but Chaff mixed with it. To a Field, in which Tares, and Darnel are mixed among the good Corn. To a Net, in which both good Fishes, and bad are taken;","proofs":["Matthew 13"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"26","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/26","segments":[{"text":"And yet since it was a constitute true Church, it was his judgement, there should be no separation from it, notwithstanding of all the foresaid faults. (4) Because, the Church of Ephesus was a true Church, though they made defection from their first love. So was the Church of Pergamus, though there were in it who held the doctrine of Balaam. So was the Church of Thyatira, notwithstanding that they suffered Jesebel, that called her self a prophetess, and taught the servants of Christ to commit Fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to Idols. (5) If we must separate from the Communion of the Church in things lawful, for the faults of others, of for the faults of Ministers, and if their sins pollute the worship of God to others, than, we must not keep communion with any Church: seeing there can hardly be a Church where there are not some hidden Hypocrites. Nay, where there are not some, who are known to be such by the Minister. Yet such are not to be excluded, as Christ himself teaches;","proofs":["Matthew 13:24"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"19","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/19","segments":[{"text":"also of the Church visible, and mixed with good and bad, by the parable of the sower.","proofs":["Matthew 13"]}]}]}