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

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Crocker & Brewster, 1831

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Página 340 - 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 82 - They went out from us, but they were not of us ; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us : but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Página 92 - 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 13 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple ; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Página 316 - Happy art thou, O Israel : who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency ! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee ; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Página 326 - 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 120 - It was his meat and his drink to do the will of the Father. Without uniting himself to God wholly, consecrating...
Página 153 - Saviour purposed by his death to " gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad...
Página 340 - ... 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 232 - ... before it became the surety's." • On the same absurd plan he reasons respecting God's views of the sins of his people before they believe, confounding all our notions of good and evil. " The Lord hath no more to lay to the charge of an elect person, yet in the height of iniquity, and in the excess of riot, and committing all the abominations that can be committed — I say even then, when an elect person runs such a course, the Lord hath no more to lay to that person's charge, than God hath...

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