Baxter's Practical Works, Volume 1: A Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases of Conscience. Directing Christians How to Use Their Knowledge and Faith; How to Improve All Helps and Means, and to Perform All Duties; How to Overcome Temptations, and to Escape Or Mortify Every Sin. in Four Parts: A Christian Directory"The editor's preface (1707), p. xiii stated that the works of Richard Baxter are 'perhaps the best body of practical divinity that is extent in our own or any other tongue.' Richard Baxter lived from 1615-1691. The DIRECTORY was completed in 1665. Its scope was intended to cover all of practical theology, a summa of casuistry . . ." Timothy Keller calls it "the greatest manual on Biblical counseling ever produced." |
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... better than my own , when they are better ? Q. 7. Who is that neighbour whom I must love as myself ? ib . Q. 9. What is the sin and danger of loving another too much ? ib . ib . Q. 10. What must be the qualifications of a bosom friend ...
... better than my own , when they are better ? Q. 7. Who is that neighbour whom I must love as myself ? ib . Q. 9. What is the sin and danger of loving another too much ? ib . ib . Q. 10. What must be the qualifications of a bosom friend ...
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... better ? 4. Either it is God's truth , or error , which I write . If error , why doth no one of you show so much charity , as by word or writing to instruct me better , nor evince it to my face , but do all to others by backbiting ? If ...
... better ? 4. Either it is God's truth , or error , which I write . If error , why doth no one of you show so much charity , as by word or writing to instruct me better , nor evince it to my face , but do all to others by backbiting ? If ...
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... better offers and mo- tions to make to thee , than thou shalt hear from any of thy old companions . If the devil can but take thee up a while , with one pleasure one day , and another business another day , and keep thee from the work ...
... better offers and mo- tions to make to thee , than thou shalt hear from any of thy old companions . If the devil can but take thee up a while , with one pleasure one day , and another business another day , and keep thee from the work ...
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... better help or portion in the hour of his necessity and distress . Of this sin I have spoken afterward , chap . iv . part 6 . Tempt . XIII . Lest the soul should be converted , the devil will do all that he can to keep you from the ...
... better help or portion in the hour of his necessity and distress . Of this sin I have spoken afterward , chap . iv . part 6 . Tempt . XIII . Lest the soul should be converted , the devil will do all that he can to keep you from the ...
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... better venture on damnation than per- form it ? You cannot believe this , if you believe him to be God . Come near , and think more deliberately on it , and you will find you might better run from your food , your friend , your life ...
... better venture on damnation than per- form it ? You cannot believe this , if you believe him to be God . Come near , and think more deliberately on it , and you will find you might better run from your food , your friend , your life ...
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Page 148 - And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
Page 284 - For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Page 137 - Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
Page 62 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is : For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green ; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 25 - Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while : for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is -offended.
Page 128 - I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands ; thou hast put all things under his feet...
Page 14 - If ye were of the world, the world would love his own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Page 290 - For he that will love life, And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips that they speak no guile: Let him eschew evil, and do good ; Let him seek peace, and ensue it.
Page 44 - For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
Page 148 - And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.