The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme, Volume 1J. Duncan, 1830 |
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... Spirit on his heart , as they are described by some divines ; because he could not ascertain the time of his conversion ; because he felt great hardness of heart , and a want of lively apprehension of spiritual things ; because he had ...
... Spirit on his heart , as they are described by some divines ; because he could not ascertain the time of his conversion ; because he felt great hardness of heart , and a want of lively apprehension of spiritual things ; because he had ...
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... Spirit and the love of God ; not , however , to the extinction of love , or the destruction of the habit of holi- ness . There is but a temporary victory : the bent and ardour of the soul are still most towards God ; the return to him ...
... Spirit and the love of God ; not , however , to the extinction of love , or the destruction of the habit of holi- ness . There is but a temporary victory : the bent and ardour of the soul are still most towards God ; the return to him ...
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... spirit was deposited . No man was more sensible of his obliquities of disposition than himself ; and no man , perhaps , ever did more to maintain the ascendancy of Christian principle over the strength and waywardness of passion . We ...
... spirit was deposited . No man was more sensible of his obliquities of disposition than himself ; and no man , perhaps , ever did more to maintain the ascendancy of Christian principle over the strength and waywardness of passion . We ...
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... spirit of the Parliament came to be understood , the people of the different counties poured in petitions full of com- plaints . The number of ministers who had been silenced by the bishops , and of individuals and families who had been ...
... spirit of the Parliament came to be understood , the people of the different counties poured in petitions full of com- plaints . The number of ministers who had been silenced by the bishops , and of individuals and families who had been ...
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... Spirit ; so it was here . The rabble of the great and little vulgar did every where hate those that reproved their sin , and condemned them by a holy life . This ignorant rabble , hearing also that the bishops were against the Puritans ...
... Spirit ; so it was here . The rabble of the great and little vulgar did every where hate those that reproved their sin , and condemned them by a holy life . This ignorant rabble , hearing also that the bishops were against the Puritans ...
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Page 405 - 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 758 - Happy art thou, O Israel : who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency ! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee ; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Page 81 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Page 400 - 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 398 - 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 546 - ... by express commission immediately and personally received from God, or else by authority derived at the first from their consent upon whose persons they . impose laws, it is no better than mere tyranny. Laws they are not therefore which public approbation hath not made so.
Page 394 - 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 523 - Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulations, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
Page 132 - The principle of becoming all things to all men, if by any means he might save...
Page 771 - I know not ; but upon the perusal of it, I conceived so good an idea of the author's piety, that I bought the whole book.