The Life and Times of Richard Baxter: With a Critical Examination of His Writings, Volume 1J. Duncan, 1830 - Dissenters, Religious |
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... Present their Paper to the King - Many Ministers ejected already - The King's De- claration - Baxter's Objections to it - Presented to the Chancellor in the form of a Petition - Meeting with his Majesty to hear the De- claration ...
... Present their Paper to the King - Many Ministers ejected already - The King's De- claration - Baxter's Objections to it - Presented to the Chancellor in the form of a Petition - Meeting with his Majesty to hear the De- claration ...
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... present it ; but 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 ...
... present it ; but 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 ...
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... happily the case in the present instance . Baxter's early impressions and convictions , though often like the morning cloud • Funeral Sermou for Baxter , and early dew , were never entirely dissipated ; but B 2 OF RICHARD BAXTER . 3.
... happily the case in the present instance . Baxter's early impressions and convictions , though often like the morning cloud • Funeral Sermou for Baxter , and early dew , were never entirely dissipated ; but B 2 OF RICHARD BAXTER . 3.
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... present relief . He was diseased literally from head to foot ; his stomach flatulent and acidulous ; violent rheumatic headachs ; prodigious bleedings at the nose ; his blood so thin and acrid that it oozed out from the points of his ...
... present relief . He was diseased literally from head to foot ; his stomach flatulent and acidulous ; violent rheumatic headachs ; prodigious bleedings at the nose ; his blood so thin and acrid that it oozed out from the points of his ...
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... present curate , he offered to allow sixty pounds per annum to a preacher whom a committee of fourteen of them should choose . This person he would permit to preach when he pleased ; and he himself would read prayers , and do any other ...
... present curate , he offered to allow sixty pounds per annum to a preacher whom a committee of fourteen of them should choose . This person he would permit to preach when he pleased ; and he himself would read prayers , and do any other ...
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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.