The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme, Volume 23J. Duncan, 1830 |
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... things which they delight in , but subservient to some base , inferior object ; and so though they delight in studying and knowing God , and heaven , and Scripture , yet not in God as God , or the chief Good , nor in heaven as heaven ...
... things which they delight in , but subservient to some base , inferior object ; and so though they delight in studying and knowing God , and heaven , and Scripture , yet not in God as God , or the chief Good , nor in heaven as heaven ...
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... things ; for he studieth holy things and profane alike . Or if any think it too narrow a phrase , to call this flesh - pleasing , or preferring the interest of the flesh , it being the soul as rational , and not only as sensitive ...
... things ; for he studieth holy things and profane alike . Or if any think it too narrow a phrase , to call this flesh - pleasing , or preferring the interest of the flesh , it being the soul as rational , and not only as sensitive ...
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... thing under the notion of evil , or of indifferent , but only as good . No man can will evil as evil ; he must first ... things about you more pleasing and lovely . Here lies the unknown danger of a prosperous state ; and on the contrary ...
... thing under the notion of evil , or of indifferent , but only as good . No man can will evil as evil ; he must first ... things about you more pleasing and lovely . Here lies the unknown danger of a prosperous state ; and on the contrary ...
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... thing hath a greater and higher interest than God the Father , and the Mediator . : Sect . XII . Prop . 12. Therefore ... things upon trust from the learned , while I was learning and studying them , or that I took them by a human faith ...
... thing hath a greater and higher interest than God the Father , and the Mediator . : Sect . XII . Prop . 12. Therefore ... things upon trust from the learned , while I was learning and studying them , or that I took them by a human faith ...
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... thing , though he will the beginning or ceasing of things . He willed the creation of the world and the dissolution of it at once from eternity ; though he willed from eternity , that it should be created and dissolved in time ; and so ...
... thing , though he will the beginning or ceasing of things . He willed the creation of the world and the dissolution of it at once from eternity ; though he willed from eternity , that it should be created and dissolved in time ; and so ...
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Page 322 - For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory...
Page 360 - There shall be no more thence an infant of days, Nor an old man that hath not filled his days: For the child shall die an hundred years old ; But the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
Page 380 - I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave : I am deprived of the residue of my years. I said, I shall not see the LORD, Even the LORD, in the land of the living : I shall behold man no more With the inhabitants of the world.
Page 248 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, That she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, Yet will I not forget thee.
Page 109 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him, let him know, that he *which converteth the sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Page 78 - For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
Page 349 - I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Page 92 - And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake.
Page 446 - Happy are the people that are in such a case ; yea, blessed are the people who have the Lord for their God.
Page 92 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves : for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.