Select Practical Writings of Richard Baxter: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1Durrie & Peck, 1831 - Christian life |
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... have that attention which they deserve . Read to learn what truth is , and to receive the truth in love ; to learn what duty is , and to do it . NEW HAVEN , Oct. 28 , 1831 . CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME . THE LIFE OF RICHARD 4 PREFACE .
... have that attention which they deserve . Read to learn what truth is , and to receive the truth in love ; to learn what duty is , and to do it . NEW HAVEN , Oct. 28 , 1831 . CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME . THE LIFE OF RICHARD 4 PREFACE .
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... duty than your comforts , and to get , and exercise , and increase grace , than to discern the certainty of it , 398 DIRECT . XXIII . Think not that those doubts and troubles which are caused by disobedience will be ever well healed but ...
... duty than your comforts , and to get , and exercise , and increase grace , than to discern the certainty of it , 398 DIRECT . XXIII . Think not that those doubts and troubles which are caused by disobedience will be ever well healed but ...
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... duty of passive obedience and the divine right of kings to govern without check or responsibility . Among these , one Dr. Sibthorp became distinguished by circum- stances . Having preached on some public occasion , a sermon full of the ...
... duty of passive obedience and the divine right of kings to govern without check or responsibility . Among these , one Dr. Sibthorp became distinguished by circum- stances . Having preached on some public occasion , a sermon full of the ...
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... duty of every minister to read publicly , once in three months , a certain prescribed declaration of the divine institution of absolute monar- chy . Another decreed not only excommunication , but a further punishment in the star ...
... duty of every minister to read publicly , once in three months , a certain prescribed declaration of the divine institution of absolute monar- chy . Another decreed not only excommunication , but a further punishment in the star ...
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... duty to him , and that our duty should be made our snare , or make us the more misera- ble by how much the more faithfully we perform it . And I saw that the very possibility of a life to come would make it the duty of a reasonable ...
... duty to him , and that our duty should be made our snare , or make us the more misera- ble by how much the more faithfully we perform it . And I saw that the very possibility of a life to come would make it the duty of a reasonable ...
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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?