The Life and Times of the Rev. Richard Baxter: With a Critical Examination of His Writings, Volumen1

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Crocker & Brewster, 1831

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Página 344 - But without faith it is impossible to please God ; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Página 76 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Página 347 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house ; and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Página 278 - I, AB, do declare that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the king, and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person or against those that are commissioned by him...
Página 36 - But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Página 44 - We took the true happiness of king and people, church and state, to be our end, and so we understood the covenant...
Página 349 - I exceedingly fear and quake : but ye are come unto Mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, and to the general assembly and church of the first-born, which are written in heaven...
Página 46 - I heard no more from them ; and afterwards, meeting Cromwell at Leicester, he expostulated with me for denying them. These very men that then invited me to be their pastor were the men that afterwards headed much of the army, and some of them were the forwardest in all our changes; which made me wish that I had gone among them, however it had been interpreted ; for then all the fire was in one spark.
Página 228 - ... unfeigned assent and consent, as aforesaid, and subscribed the declaration aforesaid, and shall not take and subscribe the oath following: I, AB, do swear, that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever, to take arms against the king...
Página 137 - ... would otherwise cooperate with him ; and makes a man walk almost alone, to his own ends. The third and greatest is, that it depriveth a man of one of the most principal instruments for action ; which is trust and belief. The best composition and temperature is, to have openness in fame and opinion ; secrecy in habit ; dissimulation in seasonable use ; and a power to feign, if there be no remedy.

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