The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme, Volume 211830 |
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... doubt , unnatural evil . Sect . 16. Nature telleth us , that God should be worshipped heartily , sincerely , spiritually , and also decently and reverently , both with soul and body , as being the Lord of both.P • Pietas est scientia ...
... doubt , unnatural evil . Sect . 16. Nature telleth us , that God should be worshipped heartily , sincerely , spiritually , and also decently and reverently , both with soul and body , as being the Lord of both.P • Pietas est scientia ...
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... doubt but it is more for the happiness of the individuals , that every dust , and stone , and fly , and beast , and man were an angel ; but it is not so . 2. And surely they that believe the evil of sin , and that God could have kept it ...
... doubt but it is more for the happiness of the individuals , that every dust , and stone , and fly , and beast , and man were an angel ; but it is not so . 2. And surely they that believe the evil of sin , and that God could have kept it ...
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... doubt . And next we are , therefore , certain , that the measure of God's good- ness is not to be taken from the creature's interest . And yet we know that his goodness inclineth him to communicate goodness and felicity to his creatures ...
... doubt . And next we are , therefore , certain , that the measure of God's good- ness is not to be taken from the creature's interest . And yet we know that his goodness inclineth him to communicate goodness and felicity to his creatures ...
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... doubt whether God be most worthy of your love ? All this is plain and sure . And will men's averseness to the love of God then disprove it ? It is natural for man to desire knowledge , as that which perfecteth his understanding ; and ...
... doubt whether God be most worthy of your love ? All this is plain and sure . And will men's averseness to the love of God then disprove it ? It is natural for man to desire knowledge , as that which perfecteth his understanding ; and ...
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... doubt whether all things which appear here to your sight have an invisible cause and Maker ? Or can you think him less amiable , because he is invisible , that is , more excellent ? 6. In a word , it is most evident , that all this ...
... doubt whether all things which appear here to your sight have an invisible cause and Maker ? Or can you think him less amiable , because he is invisible , that is , more excellent ? 6. In a word , it is most evident , that all this ...
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Page 258 - And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus : and great grace was upon them all.
Page 151 - And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son ; in thee I am well pleased.
Page 200 - Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Page 164 - Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work : but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...
Page 164 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Page 335 - Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Page 200 - Who hath believed our report ? And to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed ? for he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground : he hath no form nor comeliness ; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Page 558 - O fools, and slow of heart, to believe all that the prophets have spoken ! Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory ? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them, in all the Scriptures, the things concerning himself.
Page 522 - And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you. And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great Joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
Page 281 - For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.