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... kind of professional classic for the preacher . They have already passed through many editions on both sides of the Atlantic , and derive a com- manding reputation from the philosophical genius of their au- thor , and from his known ...
... kind of professional classic for the preacher . They have already passed through many editions on both sides of the Atlantic , and derive a com- manding reputation from the philosophical genius of their au- thor , and from his known ...
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... great general merit of his poems , ( and , it may be also said , his prose writings , ) which are for the most part exquisite in their kind . " With the style " of Richard Baxter , no student of the English language 1 * PREFACE .
... great general merit of his poems , ( and , it may be also said , his prose writings , ) which are for the most part exquisite in their kind . " With the style " of Richard Baxter , no student of the English language 1 * PREFACE .
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... kind of eminence in his calling , may sometimes be secured by the minister who shrinks from that severity of mental toil which is needed for distinguished usefulness in the other pro- fessions . But his livelihood is not a true " living ...
... kind of eminence in his calling , may sometimes be secured by the minister who shrinks from that severity of mental toil which is needed for distinguished usefulness in the other pro- fessions . But his livelihood is not a true " living ...
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... kind of gymnastic exercise to the mind . It is thus that one of the most modest of men , while writing his plain sermons , was exerting a prospective influence over our civil and judicial tribunals . The pulpit of a country village was ...
... kind of gymnastic exercise to the mind . It is thus that one of the most modest of men , while writing his plain sermons , was exerting a prospective influence over our civil and judicial tribunals . The pulpit of a country village was ...
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... kind of mystic union among all the virtues and ex- cellences of the head and heart . A golden chain seems to bind them together , and when one link is gained all the rest are drawn along with it . Thus there is a strange tie between the ...
... kind of mystic union among all the virtues and ex- cellences of the head and heart . A golden chain seems to bind them together , and when one link is gained all the rest are drawn along with it . Thus there is a strange tie between the ...
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Page 149 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Page 375 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 356 - For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
Page 439 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
Page 417 - For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Page 136 - God is not a man, that he should lie;. neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Page 439 - Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Page 349 - 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.
Page 16 - While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name : those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the Son of Perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Page 121 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...