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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... passed through the press , having undergone the final revision of the Writer , with the exception of the last sheet and a half , when his fatal illness rendered him incapable of any further literary exertion . The last proofs of the ...
... passed through the press , having undergone the final revision of the Writer , with the exception of the last sheet and a half , when his fatal illness rendered him incapable of any further literary exertion . The last proofs of the ...
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... passed through many editions , and has been honored to do good to many . Here he discovered more clearly the nature of the love of God , and of the redemption of Christ ; and was led to perceive how much he was indebted to the Re ...
... passed through many editions , and has been honored to do good to many . Here he discovered more clearly the nature of the love of God , and of the redemption of Christ ; and was led to perceive how much he was indebted to the Re ...
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... passing through Bridgnorth to join his majesty , was informed on Saturday evening , that neither Mr. Madstard nor Baxter used the sign of the cross ; that they neither wore a surplice , nor prayed against the Scots . These were crimes ...
... passing through Bridgnorth to join his majesty , was informed on Saturday evening , that neither Mr. Madstard nor Baxter used the sign of the cross ; that they neither wore a surplice , nor prayed against the Scots . These were crimes ...
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... passed and executed on him as on Burton and Prynne . Dr. Bastwick , I doubt not , was a good man ; but his spirit was very violent . His book , The Utter Routing of all the Independent Army , ' in which his fellow - sufferer Burton is ...
... passed and executed on him as on Burton and Prynne . Dr. Bastwick , I doubt not , was a good man ; but his spirit was very violent . His book , The Utter Routing of all the Independent Army , ' in which his fellow - sufferer Burton is ...
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... passed against the High - commission court , and the secular power of churchmen ; and for the continuance of the parliament till it should dissolve itself . A committee was appointed to receive petitions and complaints against the ...
... passed against the High - commission court , and the secular power of churchmen ; and for the continuance of the parliament till it should dissolve itself . A committee was appointed to receive petitions and complaints against 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...