The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme, Volume 4J. Duncan, 1830 |
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... pleasures , but also use convenient fasting , and tame the body by ne- cessary austerities . 3. If they sufficiently avoid all tempt- ing company and sights , and keep at a meet distance from them . 4. If they set such a restraint upon ...
... pleasures , but also use convenient fasting , and tame the body by ne- cessary austerities . 3. If they sufficiently avoid all tempt- ing company and sights , and keep at a meet distance from them . 4. If they set such a restraint upon ...
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... pleasure . ' I know that fleshly , graceless servants , will hear this Direction with as ill a will , as a dog when he is forbidden his meat or carrion . I know I speak against their very nature , and therefore against their very hearts ...
... pleasure . ' I know that fleshly , graceless servants , will hear this Direction with as ill a will , as a dog when he is forbidden his meat or carrion . I know I speak against their very nature , and therefore against their very hearts ...
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... pleasure , and preferment for the world ; but care not much what teacher there is , to be their guide to heaven ; nor whether ever they be seriously foretold of the world to come , or not . Direct . IV . Live , if you can obtain so ...
... pleasure , and preferment for the world ; but care not much what teacher there is , to be their guide to heaven ; nor whether ever they be seriously foretold of the world to come , or not . Direct . IV . Live , if you can obtain so ...
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... pleasure and glory is the end of his government , and is , as it were , the public or universal good . 2. In that nature teacheth us , that supreme honour is due to all that are supreme governors ; therefore they are to have the most ...
... pleasure and glory is the end of his government , and is , as it were , the public or universal good . 2. In that nature teacheth us , that supreme honour is due to all that are supreme governors ; therefore they are to have the most ...
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... pleasure of their lives . ' To live where God's law is the principal rule , and where you may be daily taught the mys- teries of his kingdom , and have the Scriptures opened to you , and be led as by the hand in 98 [ PART II . CHRISTIAN ...
... pleasure of their lives . ' To live where God's law is the principal rule , and where you may be daily taught the mys- teries of his kingdom , and have the Scriptures opened to you , and be led as by the hand in 98 [ PART II . CHRISTIAN ...
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Page 65 - My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Page 246 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, From doing thy pleasure on my holy day ; And call the sabbath a delight, The holy of the Lord, honourable; And shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, Nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord...
Page 204 - Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh ; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God ; and whatsoever ye do, do it- heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men ; knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance ; for ye serve the Lord Christ.
Page 362 - For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Page 67 - Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom ; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Page 188 - Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
Page 111 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
Page 88 - My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
Page 66 - ... (for if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
Page 215 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.