Select Practical Writings of Richard Baxter: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1Durrie & Peck, 1831 |
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... person . These were the schoolmas- ters of my youth , ( except two of them ) who read common prayer on Sundays and holy - days , and taught school and tippled on the week days , and whipped the boys when they were drunk , so that we ...
... person . These were the schoolmas- ters of my youth , ( except two of them ) who read common prayer on Sundays and holy - days , and taught school and tippled on the week days , and whipped the boys when they were drunk , so that we ...
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... person sinneth , the tempta- tion at that time prevaileth against the Spirit and the love of God ; not to the extinction of the love of God , nor the destruction of the habit , nor the setting up of the contrary habit in predominance ...
... person sinneth , the tempta- tion at that time prevaileth against the Spirit and the love of God ; not to the extinction of the love of God , nor the destruction of the habit , nor the setting up of the contrary habit in predominance ...
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... person to do upon some deliberation ; for as grace may strive one instant only in one act , and then be suddenly overcome ; so it may strive longer , and keep the mind on considerations of restraining motives , and yet be over- come ...
... person to do upon some deliberation ; for as grace may strive one instant only in one act , and then be suddenly overcome ; so it may strive longer , and keep the mind on considerations of restraining motives , and yet be over- come ...
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... persons assembled in the star - chamber , and to be pun- ished with fine , imprisonment , pillory , or mutilation , at the discre- tion of the court . The fines imposed by this court seem to have been no inconsiderable part of the ways ...
... persons assembled in the star - chamber , and to be pun- ished with fine , imprisonment , pillory , or mutilation , at the discre- tion of the court . The fines imposed by this court seem to have been no inconsiderable part of the ways ...
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... persons became voluntary exiles , rather than submit to the system which then prevailed in the church and state . Some indication of the character and standing of these exiles is afforded by the fact that their removal is supposed to ...
... persons became voluntary exiles , rather than submit to the system which then prevailed in the church and state . Some indication of the character and standing of these exiles is afforded by the fact that their removal is supposed to ...
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SELECT PRAC WRITINGS OF RICHAR, Volume 1 Richard 1615-1691 Baxter,Leonard 1802-1881 Bacon No preview available - 2016 |
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Anabaptists Answ Antinomian apprehensions Arminians army assurance Baxter believe bishops blessed Bridgenorth called carnal cause Christ and salvation Christians church church of England comfort command common grace conscience covenant cure danger death desire devil divines doctrine doth doubt duty ed Reed episcopacy faith fear flesh forsake friends give glory God's godly Gospel grace hath hear heart heaven honor hope infant baptism judge judgment justified Kidderminster king king's labor lest liberty light of Christ live Lord lord chancellor means men's mercy mind ministers Narrative nature ness never nonconformists obedience obey Papists pardon parliament party passions pastor peace persuade poor pray prayer preach preachers Presbyterians promise published Puritans religion repentance resolved rest RICHARD BAXTER saith saved Scripture sermon shew sincerity sins soul speak Spirit tell temptations things thou thought tion told trouble true truth Worcestershire word worldly
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Page 399 - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey ; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness...
Page 280 - And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life ; and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son, hath life ; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
Page 464 - Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Page 429 - Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 141 - Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without ; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Page 283 - For verily he took not on him the nature of angels ; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren...
Page 519 - Meditate upon these things ; give thyself wholly to them ; that thy profiting may appear to all.
Page 16 - I will make them conform, or I will harry them out of the land, or else worse,"
Page 259 - ... the general assembly and Church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven ; and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect...
Page 259 - Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils : for wherein is he to be accounted of?