The Life and Times of Richard Baxter: With a Critical Examination of His Writings, Volumen2

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J. Duncan, 1830

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Página 388 - Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.
Página 123 - Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulations, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
Página 280 - ... by the deeds of the law no flesh can be justified...
Página 421 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter ; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Página 133 - It was his meat and his drink to do the will of God, and in doing that will he found a continual feast.
Página 402 - I know not ; but upon the perusal of it, I conceived so good an idea of the author's piety, that I bought the whole book.
Página 421 - ... affectionate study of eloquence and copie of speech, which then began to flourish. This grew speedily to an excess; for men began to hunt more after words than matter; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses...
Página 179 - Saviour purposed by his death to " gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad...
Página 116 - Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again, and shew me both it and his habitation: but if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.
Página 317 - Holy Commonwealth or Political Aphorisms opening the true Principles of Government : for the healing of the mistakes and resolving the doubts that most endanger and trouble England at this time (if yet there may be hope).

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