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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... King - Baxter's Speech - The Ministers requested to draw up their Proposals - Meet at Sion College for this purpose - Present their Paper to the King - Many Ministers ejected already - The King's Declaration - Bax- ter's Objections to ...
... King - Baxter's Speech - The Ministers requested to draw up their Proposals - Meet at Sion College for this purpose - Present their Paper to the King - Many Ministers ejected already - The King's Declaration - Bax- ter's Objections to ...
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... King connives at the Toleration of the Nonconformists - Shuts up the Exchequer - The Dispensing declaration - License ap- plied for on Baxter's behalf - Pinner's Hall Lecture - Bax- ter preaches at different places - The King's ...
... King connives at the Toleration of the Nonconformists - Shuts up the Exchequer - The Dispensing declaration - License ap- plied for on Baxter's behalf - Pinner's Hall Lecture - Bax- ter preaches at different places - The King's ...
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... king James himself is said to have read it , and replied to one of the bishops , who affirmed it would be answered- " What the devil will you answer , man ? There is nothing here but Scripture , reason , and the fathers . " ( e ) Jacob ...
... king James himself is said to have read it , and replied to one of the bishops , who affirmed it would be answered- " What the devil will you answer , man ? There is nothing here but Scripture , reason , and the fathers . " ( e ) Jacob ...
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... king met the Scots at Newcastle , and after a time form- ed an agreement with them . The earl of Bridgewater , lord president of the Marches of Wales , passing through Bridgnorth to join his majesty , was informed on Saturday evening ...
... king met the Scots at Newcastle , and after a time form- ed an agreement with them . The earl of Bridgewater , lord president of the Marches of Wales , passing through Bridgnorth to join his majesty , was informed on Saturday evening ...
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... King's soldiers to plunder them of their goods , which made them fain to run into holes to hide their persons : and when their goods were gone , and their lives in continual danger , they were forced to fly for food and shelter . To go ...
... King's soldiers to plunder them of their goods , which made them fain to run into holes to hide their persons : and when their goods were gone , and their lives in continual danger , they were forced to fly for food and shelter . To go ...
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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...