The Life and Times of Richard Baxter: With a Critical Examination of His Writings, Volume 1J. Duncan, 1830 - Dissenters, Religious |
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... justice to Baxter and to his account of the times , required that the facts should not be withheld . They give a deplorable view of the state of the period , and show , very power- fully , the necessity of some of the measures which ...
... justice to Baxter and to his account of the times , required that the facts should not be withheld . They give a deplorable view of the state of the period , and show , very power- fully , the necessity of some of the measures which ...
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... justice of the cause depended on the spirit and weapons of the cham- pions , in most instances she would have disclaimed both . About a dozen young men , in Gloucester , of considerable parts , had been re - baptised , and laboured , as ...
... justice of the cause depended on the spirit and weapons of the cham- pions , in most instances she would have disclaimed both . About a dozen young men , in Gloucester , of considerable parts , had been re - baptised , and laboured , as ...
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... justice , kept in good order , both in respect of itself and of the country ; nor was it their pay that pacified them ; for , had they not had more civility than money , things had not been so fairly managed . There were many of them ...
... justice , kept in good order , both in respect of itself and of the country ; nor was it their pay that pacified them ; for , had they not had more civility than money , things had not been so fairly managed . There were many of them ...
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... justice of their cause , to his arguments they opposed their success ; and often must he have lost in their estimation as a politician , what he had gained by his talents and piety as a divine . Move- ment , and dispersion , which were ...
... justice of their cause , to his arguments they opposed their success ; and often must he have lost in their estimation as a politician , what he had gained by his talents and piety as a divine . Move- ment , and dispersion , which were ...
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... justice to all , and ready to acknowledge true religion wherever he found it ; but a little more zeal in some particulars than was suited to his taste , was enough to induce him to speak more strongly of the parties than the case ...
... justice to all , and ready to acknowledge true religion wherever he found it ; but a little more zeal in some particulars than was suited to his taste , was enough to induce him to speak more strongly of the parties than the case ...
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Page 497 - The description of heaven in Heb. xii. 22, was most comfortable to him ; that he was going to the " innumerable company of angels, and to the general assembly and Church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven...
Page 494 - 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 489 - 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 43 - But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Page 446 - Baxter ; but if Baxter did but stand on the other side of the pillory with him, I would say two of the greatest rogues and rascals in the kingdom stood there.
Page 181 - A few days after he sent for me again, to hear my judgment about liberty of conscience, which he pretended to be most zealous for, before almost all his privy council ; where, after another slow tedious speech of his, I told him a little of my judgment. And when two of his company had spun out a great deal more of the time in such-like tedious, but more ignorant speeches, some four or five hours being spent, I told him, that if he would be at the labour to read it, i could tell him more of my mind...
Page 391 - 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 186 - Hereupon he got a commission to take some care of the associated counties, where he brought this troop into a double regiment of fourteen full troops, and all these as full of religious men as he could get. These, having more than ordinary wit and resolution, had more than ordinary success, first in Lincolnshire and afterward in the Earl of Manchester's army at York fight.
Page 308 - Quakers did greatly relieve the sober people for a time; for they were so resolute, and gloried in their constancy and sufferings, that they assembled openly (at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate) and were dragged away daily to the common jail; and yet desisted not, but the rest came the next day nevertheless. So that the jail at Newgate was filled with them. Abundance of them died in prison, and yet they continued their assemblies still.
Page 320 - 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.