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 - Theology |
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... grace , and tended to discover the difference betwixt the true Christian and the hypocrite or unsound ; I liked no sermon so well as that which contained most of these marks ; and afterward , when I was called to the ministry myself , I ...
... grace , and tended to discover the difference betwixt the true Christian and the hypocrite or unsound ; I liked no sermon so well as that which contained most of these marks ; and afterward , when I was called to the ministry myself , I ...
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... grace as well ; and so have no sin ? nay , there are so many graces exercised in pro- ducing our assurance , besides reason itself , that if they be not first perfect , it is impossible that assurance should be perfect . For example ...
... grace as well ; and so have no sin ? nay , there are so many graces exercised in pro- ducing our assurance , besides reason itself , that if they be not first perfect , it is impossible that assurance should be perfect . For example ...
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... grace , and not the very point wherein the soul's sincerity in that grace or duty lieth , it is both easy and useful to give many marks of them . But by these no man can gather assurance of his sincerity . 3. When we are describing a ...
... grace , and not the very point wherein the soul's sincerity in that grace or duty lieth , it is both easy and useful to give many marks of them . But by these no man can gather assurance of his sincerity . 3. When we are describing a ...
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Richard Baxter William Orme. as a saving or justifying grace or duty , or as the condition of justification and salvation . It is the last of these three only that the great business in self - examination lieth on , and which we are now ...
Richard Baxter William Orme. as a saving or justifying grace or duty , or as the condition of justification and salvation . It is the last of these three only that the great business in self - examination lieth on , and which we are now ...
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... grace ; for every act is not a virtue , nor every act that may seem so . I will not stand here curiously to open to you , wherein the goodness of an action doth consist . Somewhat will be said in the following propositions : only thus ...
... grace ; for every act is not a virtue , nor every act that may seem so . I will not stand here curiously to open to you , wherein the goodness of an action doth consist . Somewhat will be said in the following propositions : only thus ...
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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.