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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... grace . So that it is not our interest that is the measure of his goodness : and if so , what is it that you call the universal interest . Surely , the universality of rational creatures hath no being but in the indi- viduals ; and if ...
... grace . So that it is not our interest that is the measure of his goodness : and if so , what is it that you call the universal interest . Surely , the universality of rational creatures hath no being but in the indi- viduals ; and if ...
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... grace and greatest mercies of God they know not the worth of them , and therefore despise them , and will not be entreated to accept them ; but take them for intolerable injuries or troubles , as a sick stomach doth its physic and food ...
... grace and greatest mercies of God they know not the worth of them , and therefore despise them , and will not be entreated to accept them ; but take them for intolerable injuries or troubles , as a sick stomach doth its physic and food ...
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... Most Christians enjoy little comfort in holiness , through the very cares of this life , and the weakness of grace , and power of corruptions , and doubts and fears which do attend them : much THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION . 61.
... Most Christians enjoy little comfort in holiness , through the very cares of this life , and the weakness of grace , and power of corruptions , and doubts and fears which do attend them : much THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION . 61.
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... grace , his image , his justice and judgments , than he now doth . Sect . 19. XIX . The constant testimony of conscience in all men , that have not mastered reason by sensuality , and the com- mon consent of all that are worthy to be ...
... grace , his image , his justice and judgments , than he now doth . Sect . 19. XIX . The constant testimony of conscience in all men , that have not mastered reason by sensuality , and the com- mon consent of all that are worthy to be ...
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... grace shall never be frustrated , nor the gates of hell prevail against his church ; and if he may forsake hell totally , as to his felicitating presence , he may also penally forsake earth as to the greater number ; whilst , for aught ...
... grace shall never be frustrated , nor the gates of hell prevail against his church ; and if he may forsake hell totally , as to his felicitating presence , he may also penally forsake earth as to the greater number ; whilst , for aught ...
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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.