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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... fear God , but the fear of men or temporal evils is more prevalent in the trial . He may have an aversation of his mind from sin , or some low degree of hatred ; it is known to him to be evil , and to hurt him ; but his love to it is ...
... fear God , but the fear of men or temporal evils is more prevalent in the trial . He may have an aversation of his mind from sin , or some low degree of hatred ; it is known to him to be evil , and to hurt him ; but his love to it is ...
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... fear , joy , hope , love , are not so certainly to be tried by the passion that is in them , as by the will that is either contained in them , or supposed in them ; not as acts of the sensitive , but of the rational appetite . I will ...
... fear , joy , hope , love , are not so certainly to be tried by the passion that is in them , as by the will that is either contained in them , or supposed in them ; not as acts of the sensitive , but of the rational appetite . I will ...
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... fear of hazarding their worldly happiness . Was this sincere , saving love to the brethren ? Who dares think so , especially in them that went on to do thus ? Yet , what did it want but a more intense degree , which might have prevailed ...
... fear of hazarding their worldly happiness . Was this sincere , saving love to the brethren ? Who dares think so , especially in them that went on to do thus ? Yet , what did it want but a more intense degree , which might have prevailed ...
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... fear , or obedience , that is saving ; and the greatest measure of sin that will stand with sincerity , and say , ' Just so far thou mayst sin , or mayst deny me thy love , and yet be saved and sincere , ' then it might have been a ...
... fear , or obedience , that is saving ; and the greatest measure of sin that will stand with sincerity , and say , ' Just so far thou mayst sin , or mayst deny me thy love , and yet be saved and sincere , ' then it might have been a ...
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... fear , & c . , more ; and , therefore , here it is far easier to try by the degree . You know that gold is not current except it be weight as well as pure metal . Now , if you put your gold in one end of the scales , and nothing in the ...
... fear , & c . , more ; and , therefore , here it is far easier to try by the degree . You know that gold is not current except it be weight as well as pure metal . Now , if you put your gold in one end of the scales , and nothing in the ...
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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.