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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... believe , is it not all one ? Answ . No : for God's word tells me not that I believe ; therefore this must be known by reflection and internal sense , and not by believing . He that believeth he doth believe , believeth himself and not ...
... believe , is it not all one ? Answ . No : for God's word tells me not that I believe ; therefore this must be known by reflection and internal sense , and not by believing . He that believeth he doth believe , believeth himself and not ...
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... believe and love , if I cannot tell myself . It is no hard matter to a solid , knowing Christian , to discern this ordinarily ; but when they do know this , they are far enough from true assurance , except they go to the rest . A man ...
... believe and love , if I cannot tell myself . It is no hard matter to a solid , knowing Christian , to discern this ordinarily ; but when they do know this , they are far enough from true assurance , except they go to the rest . A man ...
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... believe long enough , and yet not know their faith to be saving ? It is our beyond- sea divines that so mistake in this point : our English divines are sounder in it than any in the world , generally : I think be- cause they are more ...
... believe long enough , and yet not know their faith to be saving ? It is our beyond- sea divines that so mistake in this point : our English divines are sounder in it than any in the world , generally : I think be- cause they are more ...
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... believe , love Christ , & c . , when we do not at all this is the grossest kind of hypocrisy , as wanting the very natural truth of the act . 2. To seem to believe , repent , love God , & c . , virtuously , ac- cording to the former ...
... believe , love Christ , & c . , when we do not at all this is the grossest kind of hypocrisy , as wanting the very natural truth of the act . 2. To seem to believe , repent , love God , & c . , virtuously , ac- cording to the former ...
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... Believe and be saved , else not . ' And in this respect and sense , they constitute the conditions of the covenant ; and so they are the only rule by which to know what is saving grace , and what not and only in this respect it is that ...
... Believe and be saved , else not . ' And in this respect and sense , they constitute the conditions of the covenant ; and so they are the only rule by which to know what is saving grace , and what not and only in this respect it is that ...
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Page 328 - 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 254 - 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 111 - 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 80 - 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 94 - 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 355 - 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 458 - Happy are the people that are in such a case ; yea, blessed are the people who have the Lord for their God.
Page 94 - 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.
Page 243 - For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
Page 247 - Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee : hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.