The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme, Volume 16J. Duncan, 1830 - Theology |
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... happiness ( you are wise enough if you live to God ; and honourable enough if you are a member of Christ ; and rich enough if you are an heir of heaven ; and beautiful enough if you have the image of God : and yet having made your ...
... happiness ( you are wise enough if you live to God ; and honourable enough if you are a member of Christ ; and rich enough if you are an heir of heaven ; and beautiful enough if you have the image of God : and yet having made your ...
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... happiness , their best , their end , doth make their lives a constant error , and death a doleful disappointment : He must needs lie crooked that hath so short a bed . : Direct . 2. Keep all clean and sound within , that there may be ...
... happiness , their best , their end , doth make their lives a constant error , and death a doleful disappointment : He must needs lie crooked that hath so short a bed . : Direct . 2. Keep all clean and sound within , that there may be ...
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... happiness or misery for man to live , when this is ended . For he must needs know that his soul is capa- ble of a spiritual and glorious felicity with God , and of im- material objects , and that time is as nothing to it , and tran ...
... happiness or misery for man to live , when this is ended . For he must needs know that his soul is capa- ble of a spiritual and glorious felicity with God , and of im- material objects , and that time is as nothing to it , and tran ...
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... happiness in the world ? That would without entreaty bestir themselves , if their houses were on fire ; or they were drowning in the water , or were assaulted by a thief or enemy , and yet think he is too troublesome and precise , that ...
... happiness in the world ? That would without entreaty bestir themselves , if their houses were on fire ; or they were drowning in the water , or were assaulted by a thief or enemy , and yet think he is too troublesome and precise , that ...
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... happiness or misery doth depend on ! To study the nature , and causes , and signs of bodily diseases , and their several remedies , and never study the diseases of your own souls , nor the precious remedy which mercy 98 THE MISCHIEFS OF ...
... happiness or misery doth depend on ! To study the nature , and causes , and signs of bodily diseases , and their several remedies , and never study the diseases of your own souls , nor the precious remedy which mercy 98 THE MISCHIEFS OF ...
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Page 99 - If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
Page 510 - And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life ; and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son, hath life ; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
Page 164 - Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Page 221 - Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth : Both young men, and maidens; old men and children: let them praise the name of the Lord: For his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
Page 318 - ... but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ : From whom the whole body fitly joined together, and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in love.
Page 327 - Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body;" is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say, " Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body;" is it therefore not of the body?
Page 54 - But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
Page 50 - Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith ; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates ? 6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
Page 339 - Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble ; every man's work shall be made manifest : for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire ; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it ir-.
Page 166 - For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.