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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... learning of the four drank themselves to beggary , and then left the place . At the age of ten he was removed to his father's house , where Sir William Rogers , the old blind man of whom we have already spoken , was parson . One of his ...
... learning of the four drank themselves to beggary , and then left the place . At the age of ten he was removed to his father's house , where Sir William Rogers , the old blind man of whom we have already spoken , was parson . One of his ...
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... learning of the Puritans , though he had no great portion of either himself . The only advantage young Baxter had with him , was the enjoyment of time and books . Considering the great neglect of suitable and regular instruc- tion ...
... learning of the Puritans , though he had no great portion of either himself . The only advantage young Baxter had with him , was the enjoyment of time and books . Considering the great neglect of suitable and regular instruc- tion ...
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... learning and occasioned lasting regrets . He never acquired any great knowledge of the learned languages . Of Hebrew he scarcely knew any thing ; his acquaintance with Greek was not profound ; and even in Latin , as his works show , he ...
... learning and occasioned lasting regrets . He never acquired any great knowledge of the learned languages . Of Hebrew he scarcely knew any thing ; his acquaintance with Greek was not profound ; and even in Latin , as his works show , he ...
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... learning , sharpens the natural powers , and smoothes the path of knowledge ; but when it is substituted in after life for diligent application , and is supposed to supply the lack of genius or industry , it renders comparatively little ...
... learning , sharpens the natural powers , and smoothes the path of knowledge ; but when it is substituted in after life for diligent application , and is supposed to supply the lack of genius or industry , it renders comparatively little ...
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... learning . " My youthful pride and folly now I see , That grudged for want of titles and degree ; That blushed with shame when this defect was known ; And an inglorious name could hardly own . Forgive this pride , and break the ...
... learning . " My youthful pride and folly now I see , That grudged for want of titles and degree ; That blushed with shame when this defect was known ; And an inglorious name could hardly own . Forgive this pride , and break the ...
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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...