Baxter's Practical Works, Volume 1: A Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases of Conscience. Directing Christians How to Use Their Knowledge and Faith; How to Improve All Helps and Means, and to Perform All Duties; How to Overcome Temptations, and to Escape Or Mortify Every Sin. in Four Parts: A Christian DirectoryLettermen Associates, 2007 - 1050 pages "The editor's preface (1707), p. xiii stated that the works of Richard Baxter are 'perhaps the best body of practical divinity that is extent in our own or any other tongue.' Richard Baxter lived from 1615-1691. The DIRECTORY was completed in 1665. Its scope was intended to cover all of practical theology, a summa of casuistry . . ." Timothy Keller calls it "the greatest manual on Biblical counseling ever produced." |
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... creature , and what ? Q. 113. What images , and what use of images , is lawful or unlawful ? . 695 ib . other extreme , who pretend that Scripture is a rule where it is not , and deny the aforesaid lawful things , on pretence that ...
... creature , and what ? Q. 113. What images , and what use of images , is lawful or unlawful ? . 695 ib . other extreme , who pretend that Scripture is a rule where it is not , and deny the aforesaid lawful things , on pretence that ...
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... creature represented to us ? Can we forget him , when all the world are our re- membrancers ? Can we stop our ears ... creatures , in comparison with God ! And what toys and trifles are all our other businesses in the world , in ...
... creature represented to us ? Can we forget him , when all the world are our re- membrancers ? Can we stop our ears ... creatures , in comparison with God ! And what toys and trifles are all our other businesses in the world , in ...
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... creature , or by the tempting baits of sensuality , this is the more odious , by how much God is more great and glorious than the creature , and even because the use of the creature itself is but to reveal the glory of the Lord . It is ...
... creature , or by the tempting baits of sensuality , this is the more odious , by how much God is more great and glorious than the creature , and even because the use of the creature itself is but to reveal the glory of the Lord . It is ...
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... creature , and teaching him to sing in sweetest melody , of mercies mingled with judgment - and it is here too , as in his presence - chamber , with the special favourite of his love , that the Spirit of the living God surpasses his ...
... creature , and teaching him to sing in sweetest melody , of mercies mingled with judgment - and it is here too , as in his presence - chamber , with the special favourite of his love , that the Spirit of the living God surpasses his ...
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... creature , can have any good , but by God's gift : and that gift must needs be free , seeing the creature hath nothing to give that can add to him , or but what is absolutely his own . Man's duty meriteth only in point of governing dis ...
... creature , can have any good , but by God's gift : and that gift must needs be free , seeing the creature hath nothing to give that can add to him , or but what is absolutely his own . Man's duty meriteth only in point of governing dis ...
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Page 148 - And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
Page 284 - For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Page 137 - Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
Page 62 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is : For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green ; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 25 - Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while : for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is -offended.
Page 128 - I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands ; thou hast put all things under his feet...
Page 14 - If ye were of the world, the world would love his own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Page 290 - For he that will love life, And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips that they speak no guile: Let him eschew evil, and do good ; Let him seek peace, and ensue it.
Page 44 - For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
Page 148 - And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.