The Reformed Pastor: A Discourse on the Pastoral Office. Designed Principally to Explain and Recommend the Duty of Personal Instruction and Catechising. To which is Added an Appendix, Containing ... Advice to Students for the Ministry, and to Tutors. Written by the Reverend ... Mr. Richard Baxter. Abridged and Reduced to a New Method by Samuel Palmer |
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... study and preach against himself , and spend his days in a course of self - condemning ! A graceless unexperi enced preacher is one of the most unhappy crea- tures upon earth . Yet he is ordinarily , the most infenfible of his ...
... study and preach against himself , and spend his days in a course of self - condemning ! A graceless unexperi enced preacher is one of the most unhappy crea- tures upon earth . Yet he is ordinarily , the most infenfible of his ...
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... study hard to preach accurately , and study little or not at all to LIVE accurately . They are loath to Rom . ii . 21-23 : amif * mifplace a word in their fermons , but they 20 The Neceffity of a good Example . Part 1 .
... study hard to preach accurately , and study little or not at all to LIVE accurately . They are loath to Rom . ii . 21-23 : amif * mifplace a word in their fermons , but they 20 The Neceffity of a good Example . Part 1 .
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... STUDY . how to convince and get within men , and how to bring each truth to the quick ; not leaving all this to our EXTEMPORY PROMPTITUDE , unless it be in cafes of neceffity . £ Next to preaching let me mention another very . important ...
... STUDY . how to convince and get within men , and how to bring each truth to the quick ; not leaving all this to our EXTEMPORY PROMPTITUDE , unless it be in cafes of neceffity . £ Next to preaching let me mention another very . important ...
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... study to do good , will- ing to be the fervants of all for their good , be- coming all things things to all men that they may win them ; yet abstaining from the appearance of evil , and feafoning all their actions with a fweet mixture ...
... study to do good , will- ing to be the fervants of all for their good , be- coming all things things to all men that they may win them ; yet abstaining from the appearance of evil , and feafoning all their actions with a fweet mixture ...
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... study and preach to little purpose , if you neglect this duty . 2. This work of private inftruction , if well managed , will be the means of the most ORDERLY building up thofe that are converted , and establish- ing them in the faith ...
... study and preach to little purpose , if you neglect this duty . 2. This work of private inftruction , if well managed , will be the means of the most ORDERLY building up thofe that are converted , and establish- ing them in the faith ...
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Page xxxiv - Living in an age of extraordinary Events and Revolutions, he learnt (as himself asserted) this Truth, which pursuant to his intention is here declared — That all is vanity which is not honest, and that there is no solid wisdom but in real Piety...
Page 231 - Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
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Page 123 - ... hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it to the CHURCH: but if he neglect to hear the CHURCH, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
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Page 226 - What hadft thou done for the faving of that foul before it left the body ? There is one more gone into eternity ; what didft thou do to prepare him for it...