The Reformed Pastor: A Discourse on the Pastoral Office. Designed Principally to Explain and Recommend the Duty of Personal Instruction and Catechising. To which is Added an Appendix, Containing ... Advice to Students for the Ministry, and to Tutors. Written by the Reverend ... Mr. Richard Baxter. Abridged and Reduced to a New Method by Samuel PalmerJ. Buckland, 1766 - 255 pages |
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... present usefulness prevailed against " other motives , I am ready to wifh , with fome against this book , and MR . BAXTER has ingenuity enough to acknowledge " that he received fome light " and improvement from their animadverfions ...
... present usefulness prevailed against " other motives , I am ready to wifh , with fome against this book , and MR . BAXTER has ingenuity enough to acknowledge " that he received fome light " and improvement from their animadverfions ...
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... present day , much more tedious and difagreeable , and confequently much lefs ufeful , than otherwife it might have been . In its original form , this valuable piece is like a precious stone fet in the antique mode , which , though of ...
... present day , much more tedious and difagreeable , and confequently much lefs ufeful , than otherwife it might have been . In its original form , this valuable piece is like a precious stone fet in the antique mode , which , though of ...
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... PRESENT . ] > It is a dreadful thing to be an unfanctified PRO- FESSOR ; but much more to be an unfanctified PREACHER . Do not you , who know this to be your character , tremble when you open the Bible , * Matth . vii . 22 , 23 . B 3 ...
... PRESENT . ] > It is a dreadful thing to be an unfanctified PRO- FESSOR ; but much more to be an unfanctified PREACHER . Do not you , who know this to be your character , tremble when you open the Bible , * Matth . vii . 22 , 23 . B 3 ...
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... present world , that fo we may turn the ftream of their thoughts and affections ; bring them to a due contempt of this world , and put them upon feeking that durable treasure . This is the work about which we are to treat with men , day ...
... present world , that fo we may turn the ftream of their thoughts and affections ; bring them to a due contempt of this world , and put them upon feeking that durable treasure . This is the work about which we are to treat with men , day ...
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... present purpose , I might add many paffages from the ancient councils , from whence it appears that fuch a personal in- fpection , was the practice of the most antient times . But I fhall only mention one from IGNATIUS : " Let ...
... present purpose , I might add many paffages from the ancient councils , from whence it appears that fuch a personal in- fpection , was the practice of the most antient times . But I fhall only mention one from IGNATIUS : " Let ...
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Page xxxiv - Living in an age of extraordinary Events and Revolutions, he learnt (as himself asserted) this Truth, which pursuant to his intention is here declared — That all is vanity which is not honest, and that there is no solid wisdom but in real Piety...
Page 231 - 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 xxiv - I myself am able yet to do, is only to recommend to mankind the search of that felicity, •which you instruct them how to find and to enjoy.
Page xxii - Kalendarium Hortense, or the gardener's almanac, directing what he is to do monthly throughout the year, and what fruits and flowers are in prime,
Page 27 - Sculptura: or, The History and Art of Chalcography, and Engraving in Copper; with an ample Enumeration of the most renowned Masters and their Works. To which is annexed, A New Manner of Engraving, or Mezzotinto, Communicated by His Highness Prince Rupert to the Author of this Treatise.
Page 123 - ... hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it to the CHURCH: but if he neglect to hear the CHURCH, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Page xx - Composite, the latter; written in French by Roland Freart, sieur de Chambray; made English for the benefit of builders ; to which is added, an account of architects and architecture, in an historical and etymological explanation of certain terms, particularly affected by architects ; with Leon Baptista Alberti's treatise of statues,
Page 152 - We ought to throw by all the libraries in the world, rather than be guilty of the loss of one soul. It is objected, II. " The people will not submit to it," If some will not, others will.
Page xxiii - I am glad to find this favourite of mine .the moft predominant ; that you choofe this for your wife, though you have hundreds of other arts for your concubines ; though you know them, and beget fons upon them all (to which you...
Page 226 - What hadft thou done for the faving of that foul before it left the body ? There is one more gone into eternity ; what didft thou do to prepare him for it...