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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... leave them oft in a sorrowful case ( though not in a damnable ) , when they come to make use of them . Satan knows how to shake such ill - grounded comforts , and he usually doth it in a man's greatest agonies , letting them stand till ...
... leave them oft in a sorrowful case ( though not in a damnable ) , when they come to make use of them . Satan knows how to shake such ill - grounded comforts , and he usually doth it in a man's greatest agonies , letting them stand till ...
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... in Manasseh's fetters , or is fastened to his bed with pining sickness , oh , what an opportunity hath the Spirit to plead with his soul ! When the world is worth no- thing , then heaven is worth something . I leave 56 THE SAINT'S.
... in Manasseh's fetters , or is fastened to his bed with pining sickness , oh , what an opportunity hath the Spirit to plead with his soul ! When the world is worth no- thing , then heaven is worth something . I leave 56 THE SAINT'S.
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Richard Baxter William Orme. thing , then heaven is worth something . I leave every Christian to judge by his own experience , whether we do not overlove the world more in prosperity than adversity ; and whether we be not lother to come ...
Richard Baxter William Orme. thing , then heaven is worth something . I leave every Christian to judge by his own experience , whether we do not overlove the world more in prosperity than adversity ; and whether we be not lother to come ...
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... leave thee , Christian , to judge by thy own experience , whether thou dost not go more watchfully , and lively , and speedily , in thy way to rest , in thy sufferings , than thou dost in thy more pleasing and prosperous state . If you ...
... leave thee , Christian , to judge by thy own experience , whether thou dost not go more watchfully , and lively , and speedily , in thy way to rest , in thy sufferings , than thou dost in thy more pleasing and prosperous state . If you ...
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... leave this flesh ; yet , when thou hast been but one day or hour there , if we may so speak of that eternity , where is neither day nor hour , thou wouldst be full loth to return into this flesh again . Doubtless , when God , for the ...
... leave this flesh ; yet , when thou hast been but one day or hour there , if we may so speak of that eternity , where is neither day nor hour , thou wouldst be full loth to return into this flesh again . Doubtless , when God , for 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.