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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... told him there was no possibility of his winning , but by getting one cast of the dice very often . No sooner was the money down , than Baxter had every cast that he wished ; so that before a person could go three or four times round ...
... told him there was no possibility of his winning , but by getting one cast of the dice very often . No sooner was the money down , than Baxter had every cast that he wished ; so that before a person could go three or four times round ...
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... told them that he would come to church on the morrow , and see what was done . Mr. Madstard went away , and left the reader and Baxter to face the danger . On the sab- bath , however , his lordship suddenly changed his purpose , and ...
... told them that he would come to church on the morrow , and see what was done . Mr. Madstard went away , and left the reader and Baxter to face the danger . On the sab- bath , however , his lordship suddenly changed his purpose , and ...
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... told us that all was lost on the parlia- ment's side ; and that the carriages were taken , and the wag- gons plundered , before they came away . The townsmen sent a messenger to Stratford - on - avon , to know the truth . About four o ...
... told us that all was lost on the parlia- ment's side ; and that the carriages were taken , and the wag- gons plundered , before they came away . The townsmen sent a messenger to Stratford - on - avon , to know the truth . About four o ...
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... told the world of the swarms of Anabaptists in our armies , we thought it had been a mere lie , because it was not so with us , nor in any of the garrisons or county forces about us . But when I came to ( b ) The best account which I ...
... told the world of the swarms of Anabaptists in our armies , we thought it had been a mere lie , because it was not so with us , nor in any of the garrisons or county forces about us . But when I came to ( b ) The best account which I ...
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... told them wherein my judgment was against the lawfulness and conve- nience of their way , and so I heard no more from them ; but afterwards meeting Cromwell at Leicester , he expostulated with me for denying them . These very men that ...
... told them wherein my judgment was against the lawfulness and conve- nience of their way , and so I heard no more from them ; but afterwards meeting Cromwell at Leicester , he expostulated with me for denying them . These very men that ...
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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...