Select Practical Writings of Richard Baxter: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1Durrie & Peck, 1831 - Christian life |
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... desire to provide a book suited to the wants of private Christians , and of Christian families . Had it been my object to afford the theological scholar the means of judging respect- ing Baxter's opinions and his modes of reasoning on ...
... desire to provide a book suited to the wants of private Christians , and of Christian families . Had it been my object to afford the theological scholar the means of judging respect- ing Baxter's opinions and his modes of reasoning on ...
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... desire earnestly a more complete reformation . Yet nothing was yielded ; the terms of uniformity were so defined as to be easier for papists than for those who doubted the completeness of the established reformation . Ministers ...
... desire earnestly a more complete reformation . Yet nothing was yielded ; the terms of uniformity were so defined as to be easier for papists than for those who doubted the completeness of the established reformation . Ministers ...
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... desire of liberty in things indifferent , his language was , " I will have none of that ; I will have one doctrine , one dis- cipline , one religion in substance and ceremony : never speak more to that point , how far you are bound to ...
... desire of liberty in things indifferent , his language was , " I will have none of that ; I will have one doctrine , one dis- cipline , one religion in substance and ceremony : never speak more to that point , how far you are bound to ...
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... desires after literate fame , which was the sin of my childhood . I had a desire before to have attained the highest academical degrees and repu- tation of learning , and to have chosen out my studies accordingly ; but sickness and ...
... desires after literate fame , which was the sin of my childhood . I had a desire before to have attained the highest academical degrees and repu- tation of learning , and to have chosen out my studies accordingly ; but sickness and ...
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... desire of men's conversion and salvation , and of some competent persuading faculty of expression , which fervent affections might help to ac- tuate , I resolved that if one or two souls only might be won to God , it would easily ...
... desire of men's conversion and salvation , and of some competent persuading faculty of expression , which fervent affections might help to ac- tuate , I resolved that if one or two souls only might be won to God , it would easily ...
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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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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?