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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... expected ? How dismal must the state of the country have been , when they could be tolerated either as ministers or teachers . His next instructor , who loved him much , he tells us was a grave and eminent man , and expected to be made ...
... expected ? How dismal must the state of the country have been , when they could be tolerated either as ministers or teachers . His next instructor , who loved him much , he tells us was a grave and eminent man , and expected to be made ...
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... expected . But he also neglected his trust . He made it his chief business to please the great and seek preferment ; which he tried to do by speaking against the religion and learning of the Puritans , though he had no great portion of ...
... expected . But he also neglected his trust . He made it his chief business to please the great and seek preferment ; which he tried to do by speaking against the religion and learning of the Puritans , though he had no great portion of ...
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... which he came , were fewer than might have been expected , or than afterwards satis- fied his own mind ; but they probably prepared him for further discoveries , and greater satisfaction . He who is faithful 26 THE LIFE AND TIMES.
... which he came , were fewer than might have been expected , or than afterwards satis- fied his own mind ; but they probably prepared him for further discoveries , and greater satisfaction . He who is faithful 26 THE LIFE AND TIMES.
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... expected , were plentifully used on both sides at the beginning and during the continuance of this unnatural war . Rebels and roundheads were the common appellations bestowed on the parliamentary party , 38 THE LIFE AND TIMES.
... expected , were plentifully used on both sides at the beginning and during the continuance of this unnatural war . Rebels and roundheads were the common appellations bestowed on the parliamentary party , 38 THE LIFE AND TIMES.
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... expected in one that taketh error for truth , and evil to be good . " After this , he was president of the agitators , a major - general and lord , a principal person in the changes , and the chief exe- cutioner in pulling down Richard ...
... expected in one that taketh error for truth , and evil to be good . " After this , he was president of the agitators , a major - general and lord , a principal person in the changes , and the chief exe- cutioner in pulling down Richard ...
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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...