The Life and Times of the Rev. Richard Baxter: With a Critical Examination of His Writings, Volume 1Crocker & Brewster, 1831 - Clergy |
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... Ashurst and Gouge - The Fire advantage- ous to the Preaching of the Silenced Ministers - Conformist Clergy - More Talk about Liberty of Conscience - The Page Latitudinarians - Fall of Clarendon - The Duke of CONTENTS TO VOL . I.
... Ashurst and Gouge - The Fire advantage- ous to the Preaching of the Silenced Ministers - Conformist Clergy - More Talk about Liberty of Conscience - The Page Latitudinarians - Fall of Clarendon - The Duke of CONTENTS TO VOL . I.
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... conscience , shows that some- thing was operating in him , the nature and design of which he did not then fully understand . He was addicted , during his boyhood , to various evils - such as lying , stealing fruit , levity , ( b ) In ...
... conscience , shows that some- thing was operating in him , the nature and design of which he did not then fully understand . He was addicted , during his boyhood , to various evils - such as lying , stealing fruit , levity , ( b ) In ...
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... conscience distressed him , led him to much prayer , and to form many resolutions ; but whether the good work was then begun , or only revived , he never could satisfactorily ascertain . This is a circumstance of little importance ...
... conscience distressed him , led him to much prayer , and to form many resolutions ; but whether the good work was then begun , or only revived , he never could satisfactorily ascertain . This is a circumstance of little importance ...
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... conscience on the other , were the discipline which , under gracious influence , produced the most valuable results . They made him appear vile and loathsome to himself , and destroyed the root of pride in his soul . They restrained ...
... conscience on the other , were the discipline which , under gracious influence , produced the most valuable results . They made him appear vile and loathsome to himself , and destroyed the root of pride in his soul . They restrained ...
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... conscience . It is very questionable , indeed , whether any individual will ever obtain comfort by mak- ing himself , or the evidences of personal religion , the object of chief attention . All hope to the guilty creature is exterior to ...
... conscience . It is very questionable , indeed , whether any individual will ever obtain comfort by mak- ing himself , or the evidences of personal religion , the object of chief attention . All hope to the guilty creature is exterior to ...
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Page 348 - But without faith it is impossible to please God ; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Page 358 - And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
Page 354 - Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven...
Page 351 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house ; and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Page 38 - But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Page 280 - I, AB, do declare that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the king, and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person or against those that are commissioned by him...
Page 230 - ... unfeigned assent and consent, as aforesaid, and subscribed the declaration aforesaid, and shall not take and subscribe the oath following: I, AB, do swear, that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever, to take arms against the king...
Page 139 - ... would otherwise cooperate with him ; and makes a man walk almost alone, to his own ends. The third and greatest is, that it depriveth a man of one of the most principal instruments for action ; which is trust and belief. The best composition and temperature is, to have openness in fame and opinion ; secrecy in habit ; dissimulation in seasonable use ; and a power to feign, if there be no remedy.
Page 231 - Yet, to quit the towns where they had long been connected, and where alone they had friends and disciples, for a residence in country villages, was an exclusion from the ordinary means of subsistence. The Church of England had, doubtless, her provocations; but she made retaliation much more than commensurate to the injury.
Page 51 - But their most frequent and vehement disputes were for liberty of conscience, as they called it; that is, that the civil magistrate had nothing to do to determine any thing in matters of religion, by constraint or restraint ; but every man might not only hold, but preach and do, in matters of religion, what he pleased...