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I flesh , but angels shall be their convoy ; Christ , would far rather persuade thee
to hearken in with all the perfected spirits of the just , will be time , before the door
be shut against thee , than their companions : heaven will be their residence ...
I flesh , but angels shall be their convoy ; Christ , would far rather persuade thee
to hearken in with all the perfected spirits of the just , will be time , before the door
be shut against thee , than their companions : heaven will be their residence ...
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Besides , whilst the heart is set on heaven , fire , and see if thy affections will not
be warm . a man is under God ' s protection . If Satan then In thy want of love to
God , lift up thy eye of assault us , God is more engaged for our defence , faith to ...
Besides , whilst the heart is set on heaven , fire , and see if thy affections will not
be warm . a man is under God ' s protection . If Satan then In thy want of love to
God , lift up thy eye of assault us , God is more engaged for our defence , faith to ...
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DIRECTIONS HOW TO LEAD A HEAVENLY LIFE en , dictest thy own conscience
. If thou acknowledge I will be rich , right or wrong ? If this be thy thyself convinced
of the duty , that very tongue case , I dare say , heaven and thy soul are very of ...
DIRECTIONS HOW TO LEAD A HEAVENLY LIFE en , dictest thy own conscience
. If thou acknowledge I will be rich , right or wrong ? If this be thy thyself convinced
of the duty , that very tongue case , I dare say , heaven and thy soul are very of ...
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hiinself his god , and sets up himself as his idol ; thinking of heaven , can fetch
but little comfort how then can his affections be set on God ? How thence ; and
yet dost thou not lose thy opporcan he possibly have his heart in heaven ?
hiinself his god , and sets up himself as his idol ; thinking of heaven , can fetch
but little comfort how then can his affections be set on God ? How thence ; and
yet dost thou not lose thy opporcan he possibly have his heart in heaven ?
Page 1094
Contentment with the mere prepara - - to the same purpose improve every object
and tives to this heavenly life , while we are ... into thy affections ; for if it be only a
notion study of heaven ; preach , and pray , and talk of it will have little efficacy .
Contentment with the mere prepara - - to the same purpose improve every object
and tives to this heavenly life , while we are ... into thy affections ; for if it be only a
notion study of heaven ; preach , and pray , and talk of it will have little efficacy .
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Page 1092 - If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings.
Page 494 - And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.
Page 923 - I HEARD a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, From henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord : even so saith the Spirit ; for they rest from their labours.
Page 799 - But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
Page 810 - Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind, (for he that hath suffered in the flesh, hath ceased from sin,) that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
Page 878 - Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect : but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that, for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended : but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Page 522 - When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts ? Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Page 1015 - When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Page 800 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ : according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love...
Page 1098 - Therefore brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh to live after the flesh, for if ye live after the flesh ye shall die; but if ye through the spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
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| Title | The saints' everlasting rest; The divine life; and Dying thoughts; also, A call to the unconverted; and Now or never. Carefully revised |
| Author | Richard Baxter |
| Published | 1817 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 6 Mar 2007 |
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